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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
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8 de feb. de 1999 · 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.
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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.
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 profound...
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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...
1 de ene. de 2001 · “Seeing like a State” examines the ideology and practice behind some of the great utopian social engineering schemes of the twentieth century. Scott sees four elements that must be present for state power to be unleashed in such destructive ways:
17 de mar. de 2020 · A fascinating interpretation of the growth of the modern state. . . . Scott presents a formidable argument against using the power of the state in an attempt to reshape the whole of society."—John Gray, New York Times Book Review.
