k-zo da snowman wants to read Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
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Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or …