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Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Do you know the book Seeing Like a State by James Scott? No, I'm going to meet the list of games, at the list of books. This is one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. So what Scott says is that the world large states can only see the parts of the world that they can collect numbers on. He calls this legibility. And so the state hasn't a reason to transform the world to make it more legible and easily countable.
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