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"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 u...

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1. Verfasser: Scott, James C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
Ausgabe:Veritas paperbacks edition.
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:"A Veritas paperback."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780300252989
0300252986
0300246757
9780300246759

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