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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ Press, 1998Description: 464pISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: 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.
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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.

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