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Seeing Like a State
Politics
How modern states' obsession with legibility — measuring, mapping, simplifying — produces predictable catastrophes when it ignores local knowledge.
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Balaji Srinivasan
Linked in the show notes of Tim Ferriss episode #506 (March 24, 2021) where Balaji discussed centralized-planning failures.
- Patrick Collison
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Network School Reading List
Political case study on why grand schemes to engineer society from above so often fail.