| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1. State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language -- Part 2. Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiement and a critique ; The revolutionary party : a plan and a diagnosis -- Part 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, captialist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aestehtics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- Part 4. The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : Mētis ; Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Hailed as 'a magisterial critique of top-down social planning' by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"A Veritas paperback." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 13, 2021) |
| Subject |
Central planning -- Social aspects
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Social engineering.
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Authoritarianism.
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Authoritarianism
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Authoritarianism
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Central planning -- Social aspects
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Social engineering
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300252989 |
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0300252986 |
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0300246757 |
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9780300246759 |
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