Scott, James C.  1936-2024 <br/><br/>
Seeing like a state  how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed 
James C. Scott 
 - Veritas paperback edition 
 - New Haven, USA  Yale University Press  2020 
 - xiv, 445 Seiten  Illustrationen, Karten  19,6cm x 12,9cm x 2.9cm 
 - Yale agrarian studies The Yale ISPS series .
<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.  Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434) and index 
<br/><br/><br/>Acknowledgments ix<br/><br/>Introduction 1<br/><br/>Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification  9<br/>1. Nature and Space 11<br/>2. Cities, People, and Language 53<br/><br/>Part 2. Transforming Visions 85<br/>3. Authoritarian High Modernism 87<br/>4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique 103<br/>5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis 147<br/><br/>Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production 181<br/>6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams 193<br/>7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization 223<br/>8. Taming Nature: An Agricultyure of Legibility and Simplicity 262<br/><br/>Part 4. The Missing Link 307<br/> 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300246759  18,89 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>20. Jahrhundert <br/>21. Jahrhundert 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung<br/>Wirtschaftsplanung<br/>Entwicklungsplanung<br/>Autoritarismus<br/>Soziales Problem<br/>Theorie<br/>Welt<br/>Central planning--Social aspects<br/>Central planning--Social aspects<br/>Social engineering<br/>Authoritarianism
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.9 320