- Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
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Cool, spare, classical in form and contemporary.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- James C. Scott
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 454
- Publisher
- Koç Üniversitesi Yayinlari, Blackstone Audio, Yale University Press
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780300078152
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First sentence
“Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.”
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