Binding: Paperback
Description: One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades. John Gray New York Times Book Review A powerful and in many ways insightful explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform not to mention revolution so often end in tragedy . An important critique of visionary state planning. Robert Heilbroner Lingua Franca Hailed as a magisterial critique of top - down social planning by the New York Times this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail sometimes catastrophically in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. Beautifully written this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit. New Yorker A tour de force. Charles Tilly Columbia University The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Title: Seeing Like A State How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed
Author(s): Scott James C.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300246759
Pages: 464 Pages, 36 B-W Illus.
Publication Date: 3/17/2020
Series: Veritas Paperbacks
Category: Central Government Policies