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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /

"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 u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, James C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
Edición:Veritas paperbacks edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language
  • Part 2. Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiement and a critique ; The revolutionary party : a plan and a diagnosis
  • Part 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, captialist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aestehtics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity
  • Part 4. The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : Mētis ; Conclusion.