Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Bartel Van De Walle He explores intelligence tests and

He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and why it was that employers in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate

he experiences time travel

and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal

He demolishes common myths

Radicals tells the story of a group of radical Malay men and women from ordinary social backgrounds who chose to oppose foreign rule of their homeland

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Bartel Van De Walle He explores intelligence tests andCompulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusiers urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropicsthe twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide ranging and original book,