Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
, by James C. ScottNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780300070163 | 0300070160
- Cover: Trade Book
- Copyright: 3/30/1998
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.