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Planned social order is schematic and always ignores essential features of real social order
Drawn from what James C. Scott said
What James C. Scott actually said
- James C. Scott Political scientist and anthropologist (1936 to 2024)…
Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order.
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↗Seeing Like a State (Yale University Press, 1998)archive.org
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