Scott, James C.

Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human co ndition have failed / James C. Scott. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998. - xiv, 445 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Yale agrarian studies The Yale ISPS series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index.

0300078153 (pbk.) 9780300078152


Central planning-- Social aspects.
Social engineering.
Authoritarianism.

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