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

Synopsis

“one of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades. ”―john gray, new york times book review “a powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. An important critique of visionary state planning.