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Seeing Like a State
A study of what centralized schemes must simplify away in order to administer a place, and of the local knowledge that goes with it.
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Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Book · Yale University Press · 1998
Provenance
is the origin of
- Legibility costs local knowledgeClaim
The book's central argument.
related to
- James C. ScottPerson
Scott is the book's author.