Product Description : Why have largescale schemes to improve the human condition in the twentieth century so often gone awry James C Scott analyzes diverse failures in highmodernist authoritarian state planningcollectivization in Russia the building of Brasilia compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania and othersand uncovers conditions common to all such planning disasters What these failures teach us he argues is that any centrally managed social plan must recognize the importance of local customs and practical knowledge if it hopes to succeed
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