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245			_aSeeing like a state: How certain schemes to Improve the human condition have failed
260			_aUK _bYale University Press _c2020
300			_axiv, 445 p. : ill. _bIncludes bibliographical references & Index
520			_a“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
650			_aPlanning disasters _91132597
650			_aSocial reform _9707514
650			_aImprove the Human Condition _91132598
700			_aScott, James C.
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