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Seeing Like a State

by James C. Scott

Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

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Central planningSocial engineeringSocial aspects of Central planningSocial aspectsAuthoritarianismLong Now Manual for CivilizationEconomic assistance, domesticSocial problemsHuman servicesState, the

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