Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
SCOTT James C
Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed - New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ Press, 1998 - 464p.
Analyses failed cases of large scale authoritarian planning in a variety of fields. Argues that centrally managed social plans will self destruct when they attempt to impose Utopian visions which are at odds with the complex interdependencies of real societies.
0300070160 (hbk.): 35.00 US$
AUTHORITARIANISM
CENTRAL PLANNING
SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed - New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ Press, 1998 - 464p.
Analyses failed cases of large scale authoritarian planning in a variety of fields. Argues that centrally managed social plans will self destruct when they attempt to impose Utopian visions which are at odds with the complex interdependencies of real societies.
0300070160 (hbk.): 35.00 US$
AUTHORITARIANISM
CENTRAL PLANNING
SOCIAL ENGINEERING