Book #118 of 2017: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott A dry but interesting book from Yale professor James C. Scott, about how centralized power tends to simplify on-the-ground complexity, imposing cookie-cutter paradigms to ensure legibility by the state. These simplifications are often …
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