TY  - BOOK
AU  - SCOTT James C
TI  - Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
SN  - 0300070160 (hbk.):
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New Haven, Conn.
PB  - Yale Univ Press
KW  - AUTHORITARIANISM
KW  - CENTRAL PLANNING
KW  - SOCIAL ENGINEERING
N2  - 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
ER  -