SCOTT James C <br/><br/>
Seeing like a state:  how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed 

 - New Haven, Conn.:  Yale Univ Press,  1998 
 - 464p. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0300070160 (hbk.):  35.00 US$ 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AUTHORITARIANISM<br/>CENTRAL PLANNING<br/>SOCIAL ENGINEERING