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Books by James C. Scott mentioned on podcasts
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Seeing Like a State
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Critiqued“I think that James C. Scott's most popular work, Seeing Like a State, is also, unfortunately, his, I would say, weakest work.”
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Against the Grain
Why people recommend it: Challenging traditional assumptions about the rise of human civilization and the origins of state control, Against the Grain by James C.
Discussed“But one thing is really stuck with me in reading, for instance, Jamesy Scott, which talks about this and against the green, it's just whole fragile and not inevitable.”
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The Art of Not Being Governed
The Art of Not Being Governed by James C.
Discussed“Like Jim Scott I guess kind of deals with this a little bit right in the art of not being governed when he's talking about the idea that those who exist without the state are behind those who exist within the state as opposed to just on a different pathway they've chosen to follow.”
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The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Discussed“And what's important about you know price and the reaction to inflation is that it's an outrage based on a sense of justice right this rage is not a measure of direct exploitation necessarily I think it was the political scientist James C Scott who wrote his own book called the moral economy of the peasant”
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