books.google.com - In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not -- and cannot be --...https://books.google.com/books/about/Seeing_Like_a_State.html?id=PqcPCgsr2u0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSeeing Like a State
