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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Get ready for a new"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades." John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to mention revolution, so often end in tragedy. . . . An important critique of visionary state planning." Robert Heilbroner, Lingua Franca Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top down social