{"product_id":"seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-9780300246759","title":"Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.\"--John Gray, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eLingua Franca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hailed as \"a magisterial critique of top-down social planning\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A tour de force.\"--Charles Tilly, Columbia University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Institution for Social and Policy Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10450048\"\u003eJames C. Scott\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300246759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300246757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL010000\"\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Theory | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL040020\"\u003eWorld | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL028000\"\u003ePublic Policy | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames C. Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (1936-2024) was Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Not Being Governed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDomination and the Arts of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45161570140299,"sku":"9780300246759","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_b29610ee-b80a-4433-ba03-793d0c0221c6.jpg?v=1770220345","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-9780300246759","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}