Name: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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Author: Scott, James C.
ISBN: 9780300246759

portada Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Type

Physical Book

Author

James C. Scott

Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780300246759

Synopsis "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed"

"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 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 "A tour de force."-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University The Institution for Social and Policy Studies

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Nicolas Figueroa MoranFriday, September 17, 2021
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" aunque aun no lo termino, es un libro maravilloso, el autor expone con lujo de detalle y ojo critico los procesos de ingeniería social, estandarización, categorización, etc. y sus consecuencias en la vida del ser humano e incluso de la naturaleza. "
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