EAN: 9780300246759

SEEING LIKE A STATE - JAMES C SCOTT KARTONIERT ...

"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

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