Ikwezi reviewed Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is …
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3 stars
Full of good insights, but I could have used less explanation of why Soviet collectivization was wrong on every level and more than the passing reference that was made to the properties that make certain problems amenable to large-scale planning.