Hardcover, 445 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1998 by Yale University Press.
Seeing like a state
how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed Yale agrarian studies
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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Subjects
- Central planning -- Social aspects
- Social engineering
- Authoritarianism