[PDF.65vl] Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

[PDF.lj48] Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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 | #31031 in Books |  imusti |  1999-02-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.22 x6.16 x9.22l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

 | Yale University Press

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The beginning was good, the 2nd half was long and redundant|By Peter McCluskey|Scott begins with a history of the tension between the desire for legibility versus the desire for local control. E.g. central governments wanted to know how much they could tax peasants without causing famine or revolt. Yet even in the optimistic case where they got an honest tax collector to report|.com |James C. Scott's research for this book began with an examination of the tensions between state authorities and various "unstable" individuals throughout history, from hunter-gatherer tribes to Gypsies to the homeless. He soon became fascinated, howeve