Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

About this book

Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

Subjects

  • antropologia cultural e social
  • aspect social
  • aspects sociaux
  • authoritarianism
  • autoritarisme
  • autoritarismo (sistemas de governo)
  • business development
  • business & economics
  • central planning
  • development
  • economic assistance, domestic
  • economic development
  • economic policy
  • economie dirigée
  • general
  • government & business
  • human services
  • ingénierie sociale
  • long now manual for civilization
  • maatschappijverbetering
  • pays de l'est
  • pays en développement
  • planeconomie
  • planejamento econômico (aspectos sociais)
  • planejamento territorial (avaliação)
  • planification économique
  • political science
  • public policy
  • régimes totalitaires
  • social aspects
  • social aspects of central planning
  • social engineering
  • social problems
  • state, the
  • structural adjustment
  • utopieën