
Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- ISBN 13:
9780300078152
- ISBN 10:
0300078153
- Format: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 02/08/1999
- Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary
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.