Seeing Like a State

Tags: Big Government, Booms and Busts, World History

03/21/2011 Mike Reid

Government planners developed a particular aesthetic obsession: they were frustrated by the untidy complexity of real human societies, writes Mike Reid.

This audio Mises Daily is narrated by the author.

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