Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /

Scott, James C.,

Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998. - xiv, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Yale agrarian studies The Yale ISPS series .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434) and index.

0300070160 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780300078152 (paperback)

97026556


Central planning--Social aspects.
Social engineering.
Authoritarianism.

HD87.5 / .S365 1998

338.9