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What the state sees is not reality

What the state sees is not reality

Brad DeLong, self-professed Keynesian and social democrat, writes an excellent review of Jame’s Scott’s Seeing Like a State. He points out that Scott doesn’t seem to understand the intellectual roots of his own ideas: those roots are Mises and Hayek.

This is a very good review and very much worth reading.

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