Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

445 pages paperback 1998

8 editions

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Lack of good governance measures in postcolonial African countries is one of the most depriving problems for local communities. Development for a long time has been portrayed as the only way forward, and the task of development has been assigned t...

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