Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to Improve the human condition have failed (Record no. 1715800)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780300246759 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | RTL |
| Transcribing agency | RTL |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Assigning agency | RTL |
| Classification number | X:75-77 N8 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to Improve the human condition have failed |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | UK |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Yale University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 445 p. : ill. |
| Other physical details | Includes bibliographical references & Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | “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<br/> <br/>“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<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/>“Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Planning disasters |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1132597 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social reform |
| 9 (RLIN) | 707514 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Improve the Human Condition |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1132598 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Scott, James C. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Suppress in OPAC | Yes |
| Koha item type | Textbook |
| Classification part | X:75-77 N8 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Ratan Tata Library | Ratan Tata Library | 2026-03-19 | X:75-77 N8 | RT1528677 | 2026-03-19 | 2026-03-19 | Textbook |