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James C Scott — Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Scott, James C. *Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed*. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

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