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portada Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
464
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.6x12.7x3.3 cm
Weight
0.36 kg.
ISBN13
9780300246759
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott (Author) · Yale University Press · Paperback

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott

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Synopsis "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed "

"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many 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, Lingua Franca 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. "Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A tour de force."-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
James C. Scott
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James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. Among his books are Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts; and most recently, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a mediocre farmer and beekeeper.
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Nicolas Figueroa Moran Friday, September 17, 2021
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aunque aun no lo termino, es un libro maravilloso, el autor expone con lujo de detalle y ojo critico los procesos de ingeniería social, estandarización, categorización, etc. y sus consecuencias en la vida del ser humano e incluso de la naturaleza.

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