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 | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University) by James C. Scott Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-300-07815-3 / 0300078153 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-07815-2 / 9780300078152 Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics -- the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brough | |