Seeing Like A State
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Originally published | March 1998 |
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Authors | James C. Scott |
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ID | 2044092 |
About Seeing Like A State
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 around confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws.