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“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
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“AÂ powerful, and in many 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
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“AÂ powerful, and in many 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 planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail-sometimes catastrophically-in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters.
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“Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”-New Yorker
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“A tour de force.”- Charles Tilly, Columbia University
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