Seeing Like a State

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book (hardcover release March 1998, paperback February 1999) by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that center around confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws.

Seeing Like a State

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book (hardcover release March 1998, paperback February 1999) by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that center around confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws.