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Seeing Like a State

Name: Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott

by James C. Scott

Science & NatureBusiness

1998

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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