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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers on governments' overconfidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with purported scientific laws. [1] [2] [3]
- James C. Scott
- English
- 1998
- 464
8 de feb. de 1999 · 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 ...
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1 de ene. de 2001 · In Seeing Like a State, Scott explores how attempts to radically transform and improve the human condition have failed. He identifies the central problem of statecraft and of government as one of legibility; the state must make its citizens and their activities visible before it can appropriate revenue and orchestrate any plan for ...
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8 de feb. de 1999 · Seeing Like a State. How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. by James C. Scott. Series: The Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Course Book. 464 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 in, 36 b-w illus. Paperback. 9780300078152. Published: Monday, 8 Feb 1999. $25.95. BUY. Also Available At: Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Bookshop. Indiebound.
17 de mar. de 2020 · Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. James C. Scott. Yale University Press, Mar 17, 2020 - Political Science - 480 pages. “One of the most...
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17 de mar. de 2020 · Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks) | mitpressbookstore. James C. Scott. $21.95. Publication Date: March 17th, 2020. Publisher: Yale University Press. ISBN: 9780300246759. Pages: 464. Quantity. Add to wishlist. Available Formats. Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days. Description.
17 de mar. de 2020 · Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. by James C. Scott. Series: Veritas Paperbacks. Course Book.
