E17: James C. Scott’s /Seeing Like a State/, part one

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An introduction to the core ideas of Scott's /Seeing Like a State/. Three examples. Nothing about software yet.
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 1998.

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E17: James C. Scott’s /Seeing Like a State/, part one
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