Seeing Like a State - (Veritas Paperbacks) by James C Scott (Paperback)

"Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" by James C.

Scott is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding why grandiose plans to engineer society or the environment often end in tragedy.

This book provides a meticulous accumulation of empirical evidence that details the failure of large-scale state projects to improve the human condition, highlighting the importance of local knowledge and conditions of complex diversity.

With a focus on case studies from Russia to Tanzania, Scott offers a powerful critique of visionary state planning and its tendency to overlook the limitations of human nature.

By examining the sensorium of a Leviathan, Scott takes readers on a journey to uncover the reasons behind these failures and how they can be prevented in the future.

Don't miss out on this seminal work that has been praised as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times and "an important book" by Francis Fukuyama.

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