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James C. Scott: Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017, xvii + 311 pp, 26.00 (hardcover)

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  • Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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    Ennio E. Piano

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Piano, E.E. James C. Scott: Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states. Public Choice 173, 369–371 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-017-0482-4

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