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

by James C. Scott (Author) (edit contributors)

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Why have large-scale schemes to improve the human condition in the twentieth century so often gone awry? James C. Scott analyzes diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning-collectivization in Russia, the building of Brasilia, compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, and... read more

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Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.

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  1. James C. Scott (Author)

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