{"product_id":"seeing-like-a-state","title":"Seeing Like a State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames C. Scott\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 464 pages\u003cbr\u003e9780300246759\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHailed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. Transforming Visions\u003cbr\u003ePart 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production\u003cbr\u003ePart 4. The Missing Link\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42555306311715,"sku":"9780300246759","price":31.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/files\/DSC_9753_11fda9b6-07a4-40f1-87dc-639c92ba15d5.jpg?v=1781603551","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/seeing-like-a-state","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}