01571nam a2200205 4500 20260408105937.0 260319b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780300246759 RTL RTL RTL X:75-77 N8 Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to Improve the human condition have failed UK Yale University Press 2020 xiv, 445 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references & Index “One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review “A powerful, and in many [ways] 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, Lingua Franca Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, 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. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker Planning disasters 1132597 Social reform 707514 Improve the Human Condition 1132598 Scott, James C. CC 1 TB X:75-77 N8 1715800 1715800 0 0 CC 0 0 RTL RTL 2026-03-19 0 X:75-77 N8 RT1528677 2026-03-19 16:58:00 2026-03-19 TB