James C. Scott · 1998
A political science book arguing that large-scale state-sponsored social engineering projects consistently fail because they ignore local contexts.
Dan Wang criticizes it by considering it the author's weakest work compared to his studies on stateless regions.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“So I think that James C. Scott's most popular work, Seeing Like a State, is also unfortunately his, I would say, weakest work. It takes—…”
Why: The speaker contrasts it with his better work on stateless regions.
Dan Wang, Guest on Conversations with TylerDan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
Named without an opinion attached.
“I mean, I think that there's a lot, you know, I was thinking in particular of that approach. I've been reading James C. Scott, who writes a lot about kind of the idea of kind of, you know, control, regulation as control or top-down regulation as control.”
Chris Arnade, Guest on Conversations with TylerChris Arnade on Walking Cities
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