Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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- 1998
- #Politics #ComplexSystems
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "moderni...
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Number of Pages: 445
ISBN: 0300078153
ISBN-13: 9780300078152
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Taylor Pearson @TaylorPearson
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Scott Alexander @ScottAlexander
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Mar 16, 2017
Overall I did like this book. I’m not really sure what I got from its thesis, but maybe that was appropriate. Seeing Like A State was arranged kind of like the premodern forests and villages it describes; not especially well-organized, not really directed toward any clear predetermined goal, but full of interesting things and lovely to spend some time in.