{"product_id":"seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-9780300246759","title":"Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.\"--John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning.\"--Robert Heilbroner, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLingua Franca\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hailed as \"a magisterial critique of top-down social planning\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A tour de force.\"-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James C. Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300246759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames C. Scott\u003c\/b\u003e is Sterling Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39822062977139,"sku":"9780300246759","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5dfae807-5d12-432e-8725-129482adc7d7.jpg?v=1644520337","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-9780300246759","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}