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by closeparen 2350 days ago
>Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn’t, James Scott had to write it a century later. The wait was worth it.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...