Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott · 1998
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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Central planningSocial engineeringSocial aspects of Central planningSocial aspectsAuthoritarianismLong Now Manual for CivilizationEconomic assistance, domesticSocial problemsHuman servicesState, thePOLITICAL SCIENCEPublic Policy