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Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Highly influential, great thesis (centrally-managed state plans fail due to attempting to over-simplify complex systems), but goes a bit too deep into certain examples and ends up a bit repetitive.

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Title Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Authors James C. Scott
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Pages 462
Publisher Yale University Press
ISBN 9780300252989