TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,James C.
TI  - Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
SN  - 9780300078152
U1  - 338.9 23
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Social engineering
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Central planning
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Economic development
N1  - 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
ER  -