TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,James C.
TI  - Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
T2  - Yale agrarian studies
SN  - 9780300246759
U1  - 338.9 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Haven, USA
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung
KW  - stw
KW  - Wirtschaftsplanung
KW  - Entwicklungsplanung
KW  - Autoritarismus
KW  - Soziales Problem
KW  - Theorie
KW  - Welt
KW  - Central planning
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social engineering
KW  - Authoritarianism
N1  - 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; 
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification  9
1. Nature and Space 11
2. Cities, People, and Language 53

Part 2. Transforming Visions 85
3. Authoritarian High Modernism 87
4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique 103
5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis 147

Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production 181
6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams 193
7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization 223
8. Taming Nature: An Agricultyure of Legibility and Simplicity 262

Part 4. The Missing Link 307
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