{"product_id":"seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-paperback","title":"Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames C. Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45576531771436,"sku":"9780300246759","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/7TTYSTS4E-9780300246759.webp?v=1779947263","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}