Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"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

Info autore

James C. Scott (1936-2024) was Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include The Art of Not Being Governed, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, and Against the Grain.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: James C. Scott
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.03.2020
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9780300246759
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24675-9
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.8 x 19.8 x 3 cm
• Serie: Veritas Paperbacks
• Categorie: Systems, Political Science, Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Tanzania, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Nonfiction, Agriculture, Social welfare & social services, Public Policy, Political Economy, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Constitution: government & the state, Central government policies, Constitution: government and the state, international affairs, state power, Social welfare, social policy and social services, Human Condition, state control;tanzania;tanzanian villages;agricultural modernization;utopian schemes;utopian societies;failings of political schemes;epistemic knowledge;political plans;authoritarian states;state power;ineffectiveness;large scale interventions;human , Authoritarian states, agricultural modernization, cultural social, utopian schemes, epistemic knowledge, large scale interventions, ineffectiveness, utopian societies, economics politics, failings of political schemes, political plans, tanzanian villages