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Michael Kramer
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James C. Scott
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Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics - the 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 audiobook, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
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exactly what I've been looking for
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De: David Graeber, y otros
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The Technological Society
- De: Jacques Ellul
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
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Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology - which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind - threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful listening of this book.
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A singular work.
- De Daniel S Hoffman en 06-20-21
De: Jacques Ellul
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The Mystery of Capital
- Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
- De: Hernando de Soto
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up one of the most pressing questions the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail?
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Good global perspective on Capitalism
- De Nellie boi en 05-29-21
De: Hernando de Soto
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Work
- A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
- De: James Suzman
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Work defines who we are. It determines our status and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hardwired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like? To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are.
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if you like Jared Diamond's work, you'll like this
- De Mark en 04-09-22
De: James Suzman
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
- A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
- De: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
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Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism.
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A remarkable exposé & synthesis of the Ponzi scheme that capitalism is and always has been.
- De Scott en 02-10-18
De: Raj Patel, y otros
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Nonzero
- The Logic of Human Destiny
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless.
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Non-Zero (but pretty close to zero)
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- De: Amitav Ghosh
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A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis.
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performance....
- De Bonnie en 11-15-22
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative.
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World without Women
- De Paul Richards en 04-28-18
De: James C. Scott
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The Ages of Globalization
- Geography, Technology, and Institutions
- De: Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Narrado por: Steve Menasche
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. Sachs takes listeners through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today's globalization.
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Narrator.
- De ROGER QUESADA en 08-03-20
De: Jeffrey D. Sachs
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 22 h y 34 m
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
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Few forests, but lots of trees
- De Steve Pagano en 10-05-15
De: Francis Fukuyama
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
- A John Hope Franklin Center Book
- De: Immanuel Wallerstein
- Narrado por: Fred Filbrich
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In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered 30 years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference in discussions of globalization.
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Uneven, but Ambitious
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Really interesting and engaging story
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from 45 to 72 years. The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.
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Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.
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The rock could use a bit more polishing
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Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be.
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Who Gets What - And Why
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If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you've participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of a good connects sellers and buyers. But what about other kinds of "goods," like a spot in the Yale freshman class or a position at Google?
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It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.
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America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they? As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.
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Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies—vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire.
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A fun historical analysis of Pirate political systems
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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.
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The Science of Can and Can't
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There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be impossible to incorporate into fundamental scientific explanations. They are facts not about what is (the actual) but about what could be (counterfactuals).
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Seeing Like a State
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- AaronJacob Shane Lampe
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Imperative
This work could be instrumental in understanding the implementation of technical thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries. Especially from an agrarian standpoint. This is huge.
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- Ian Turner
- 12-19-22
Estate planning, put on display
The book serves as a clear demonstration of the logic, vicissitudes and ultimately the inefficiencies behind centralized planning systems in any statist system. The book goes a long way to make the case for autonomous individuals in small communities, making more flexible less rigid decisions.
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- 12-01-23
Micro Managing at the Macro Level
This is a great breakdown of how highly educated and accredited “elites” use their book knowledge to micromanage events at a macro level without any understanding of local knowledge and customs.
Anyone who thinks they understand how to run someone else’s life better than they do should read this book. That includes anyone running for public office or working as a public servant.
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Learn how the altruistic utilitarian visions of human nature fail!
The author goes into detail how visions don’t meet on the ground reality and the dangers of that within, highly recommended!
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- Philo
- 09-05-18
The new logic of all behavior
Just the headline idea: that every entity seeks to bend the world into legibility to itself, often obliterating things outside of this logic -- is worth the price of admission. The writing is peppered with insight, on levels of behavioral logic, cognitive science, philosophy, ecology, politics, economics and more. Whether or not that was the author's intention, I see all this in it. And I see the way humanity will probably have its most large-scale failures. This is a worthy milestone in human awareness, even if we end up watching it play out with devastating consequences.
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- Hamish Kavanagh
- 09-21-20
Good content, but a bit dry
This book is very engaging at times and overall contains some interesting content. However, there definitely some slow patches that I found myself grinding through. Nonetheless, I learnt quite a bit so perhaps there was a trade off for that hard work.
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- zoia krioukova
- 12-03-23
A must read
Necessary reading in order to understand the shaping of the modern world. And engaging and revelatory look at the high modernist systems that control the world.
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- Alison
- 04-02-19
Best Work on State's Vision and Reshaping Forces
One of the best works in politics, society, and anthropology. Clearly describes and illustrates the relationship between the State and the society it both rules and is embedded in.
Discusses the forces of social organisation both implemented by the State and naturally evolving outside the State, and describes how the State reshapes society to better coincide with its methods of seeing society.
If you liked this, you'll like Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises (examination of the forces behind bureaucracy's behavior - cf Public Choice theory). Also read more James C Scott - Two Cheers For Anarchy (the good in Anarchy) and Against The Grain (the development of States with that of agriculture).
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- Matt
- 05-05-22
Excellent critique of state intervention
Seeing like a state is a critique of 'high modernism' a reductive disposition of the state towards society aimed at making it more 'legible' (manageable and readable for state purposes such as taxation) by attempting to simplify, organise and mould society, often with disasterous consequences deriving not least from interrupting or depleting complex systems whose principles the state does not fully comprehend, or ignoring or suppressing the application of practical or contextual knowledge ('metis').
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- Erik The Red
- 11-28-22
Excellent
Government which is small and focuses on the locality works best. The author proves this time and time again. Good narration.
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