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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2020.
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| Édition: | Veritas paperbacks edition. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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."--Provided by publisher |
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| Description: | "A Veritas paperback." |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300252989 0300252986 0300246757 9780300246759 |