Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
Why have large-scale schemes to improve the human condition in the twentieth century so often gone awry? James C. Scott analyzes diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning-collectivization in Russia, the building of Brasilia, compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, and others-and uncovers conditions common to all such planning disasters. What these failures teach us, he argues, is that any centrally managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge if it hopes to succeed.
Рік:
1998
Видавництво:
Yale University Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
230
ISBN 10:
0300070160
ISBN 13:
9780300070163
Серії:
The Yale ISPS Series
Файл:
PDF, 5.94 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1998