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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed and Jenny Torres Sanchez have"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