Title: Seeing Like a State
Subtitle: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
First published: 1998
Description: 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: Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects, Authoritarianism, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Economic assistance, domestic, Social problems, Human services, State, the, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Government & Business, Development, Economic Development, Business Development, Structural Adjustment, General, Pays en développement, Pays de l'Est, Economie dirigée, Régimes totalitaires, Aspects sociaux, Autoritarisme, Planeconomie, Utopieën, Maatschappijverbetering, PLANEJAMENTO ECONÔMICO (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS), AUTORITARISMO (SISTEMAS DE GOVERNO), ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL E SOCIAL, PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL (AVALIAÇÃO), Planification économique, Aspect social, Ingénierie sociale
Places: Tanzania, Soviet Russia, Brasilia
People: V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron Haussmann
LC classification: HD87.5 .S365 1998