Human Systems · beginner
Seeing Like a State
ISBN 9780300078152
About This Book
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Editorial Note
How states make populations 'legible' through standardization and how this legibility destroys the practical knowledge (metis) that makes systems actually work. Essential for anyone who builds anything at scale.
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legibilitypowerlocal-knowledge
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