Venkat · Ribbonfarm · 2010
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott's fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp rove the Human Condition Have Failed , examines how, across…
Why we picked it
Its examination of failed improvement schemes highlights the danger of simplifying human systems until local knowledge disappears.
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