Librería: Indiana Book Company, Marion, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Textbooks_Source, Columbia, MO, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Sunshine State Books, Lithia, FL, Estados Unidos de America
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Añadir al carritopaperback. Condición: Very Good. Paperback--excellent condition.
Idioma: Inglés
Publicado por Yale Universirty Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0300078153 ISBN 13: 9780300078152
Librería: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Reino Unido
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Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, Estados Unidos de America
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Añadir al carritopaperback. Condición: As New. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location EA-D-54*GREIF.
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Idioma: Inglés
Publicado por Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999
ISBN 10: 0300078153 ISBN 13: 9780300078152
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, Estados Unidos de America
EUR 38,27
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics — the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not — and cannot — be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans. "A broad-ranging, theoretically important, and empirically grounded treatment of the modern state and its propensity to simplify and make legible a society which by nature is complex and opaque. For anyone interested inlearning about this fundamental tension of modernity and about the destruction wrought in the twentieth century as a consequence of the dominant development ideology of the simplifying state, this is a must-read" — Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In a wide-ranging and original study, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when schematic visions are imposed on long-established structures without taking into account preexisting interdependencies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
EUR 47,54
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
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Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
EUR 38,42
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: Brand New. new edition edition. 464 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Librería: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
EUR 35,75
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Librería: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, Reino Unido
EUR 44,34
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Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
EUR 74,31
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Añadir al carritoPaperback. Condición: Brand New. new edition edition. 464 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Librería: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, Reino Unido
EUR 76,99
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Añadir al carritoCondición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.