Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

  • 4.31 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 114 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

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446

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
May 22, 2018, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio
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Cover of: Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
May 22, 2018, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
February 8, 1999, Yale University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
1998-03-30, Yale University Press
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Classifications

Library of Congress
HD87.5 .S365 1998, HD87.5.S365 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
446
Dimensions
9.5 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
Weight
1.9 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26202593M
Internet Archive
seeinglikestateh00scot_250
ISBN 13
9780300070163
LCCN
97026556
OCLC/WorldCat
97026556
Wikidata
Q111712214

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Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.
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