James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.
"A magisterial critique of top-down social planning that has been
cited, and debated, by the free-market libertarians of the Cato
Institute (which recently dedicated an issue of its online journal
to the book), development economists, and partisans of Occupy Wall
Street alike."-Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times
"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this
century to have been published in recent decades. . . . A
fascinating interpretation of the growth of the modern state. . . .
Scott presents a formidable argument against using the power of the
state in an attempt to reshape the whole of society."-John Gray,
New York Times Book Review
"Illuminating and beautifully written, this book calls into
sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."-New
Yorker
"Seeing Like a State is an important work. It will, I
believe, be used widely in university courses and by a wider
reading public who seek to understand the broad contours of our
recent history."-Jane Adams, Rural History
"To my mind, Seeing Like a State is one of the most
stimulating and ambitious synthetic works of recent years."-John
Agar, British Journal for the History of Science
Winner of the 2000 Mattei Dogan Award
2015 Wildavsky Award for Enduring Contribution to Policy Studies,
from the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science
Association
"The 'perfection' Scott so rightly and with such tremendous skill and erudition debunks in his book he himself has nearly reached, as far as positing and presenting the problem is concerned. The case of what the order-crazy mind is capable of doing and why we need to stop it from doing it has been established 'beyond any reasonable doubt' and with a force that cannot be strengthened."-Zygmunt Bauman, emeritus professor, University of Leeds
"A tour de force. . . . Reading the book delighted and inspired me. It's not the first time Jim Scott has had that effect."-Charles Tilly, Columbia University
"Stunning insights, an original position, and a conceptual approach of global application. Scott's book will at once take its place among the decade's truly seminal contributions to comparative politics."-M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"James Scott is one of the most original and interesting
social scientists whom I know. So it is no surprise that Seeing
Like a State is a broad ranging, theoretically important, and
empirically grounded treatment of the modern state. For anyone
interested in learning about this fundamental tension of modernity
and about the destruction wrought in the twentieth century as a
consequence of the dominant development ideology of the simplifying
state, high modernism, Seeing Like a State is a must read."-Daniel
Jonah Goldhagen, Professor of Government and Social Studies at
Harvard University and author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
"A broad-ranging, theoretically important, and empirically grounded
treatment of the modern state and its propensity to simplify and
make legible a society which by nature is complex and opaque. For
anyone interested in learning about this fundamental tension of
modernity and about the destruction wrought in the twentieth
century as a consequence of the dominant development ideology of
the simplifying state, this is a must-read."-Daniel Jonah
Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
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