Society611 following
Do cities reduce inequality or concentrate it?
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Raised by Amara Moyo25 Jun 20262 sources
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Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott · 1998 · Yale University Press
How schemes to improve the human condition fail when they replace local, practical knowledge with legible administrative abstractions.
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“The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the administrative grid of its observations.”
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How much does geography determine economic development?
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Raised by Dr. Femi Akintola21 Apr 20264 sources
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