An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)

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How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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Seeing Like a State
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An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)

Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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  • ★★★★ 4.31 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 114 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

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Yale University Press
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English
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445

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Subjects
Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects, Authoritarianism, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Economic assistance, domestic, Social problems, Human services, State, the, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Government & Business, Development, Economic Development, Business Development, Structural Adjustment, General, Pays en développement, Pays de l'Est, Economie dirigée, Régimes totalitaires, Aspects sociaux, Autoritarisme, Planeconomie, Utopieën, Maatschappijverbetering, PLANEJAMENTO ECONÔMICO (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS), AUTORITARISMO (SISTEMAS DE GOVERNO), ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL E SOCIAL, PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL (AVALIAÇÃO), Planification économique, Aspect social, Ingénierie sociale
People
V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron Haussmann
Places
Tanzania, Soviet Russia, Brasilia

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
1998-03-30, Yale University Press
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