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Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

19981 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1998
first published
  • 1998Yale University Press · 445 pages · ENGISBN 9780300070163
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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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