Paperback. One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning."Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca Hailed as a magisterial critique of top-down social planning by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often failsometimes catastrophicallyin grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.New Yorker A tour de force. Charles Tilly, Columbia UniversityThe Institution for Social and Policy Studies Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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T�tulo: Seeing Like a State (Paperback)
Editor: Yale University Press
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2020
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0300246757
ISBN 13: 9780300246759
Encuadernaci�n: Paperback
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“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”―John Gray, New York Times Book Review

“A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning.”―Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca

Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail―sometimes catastrophically―in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters.

“Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”―New Yorker

“A tour de force.”―Charles Tilly, Columbia University

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies

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James C. Scott (1936–2024) was Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include The Art of Not Being Governed, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, and Against the Grain.

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