Scott, James C.

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Seeing like a state how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott . — New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998.

xiv, 445 p.

State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language -- Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique ; The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis -- The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis ; Conclusion.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social engineering
Authoritarianism
Central planning--Social aspects
Economic development--Social aspects