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Jiang uses James Scott to support the claim that market exchange, Enlightenment standardization, and revolutionary state-building made the metric revolution and state simplification possible.
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James Scott
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...would recommend uh to your listeners is seeing the state by James Scott yeah he makes the argument that a bureaucracy what a proxy..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...would recommend uh to your listeners is seeing the state by James Scott yeah he makes the argument that a bureaucracy what a proxy..."
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Jiang argues that bureaucracy transforms society into a form that can be more easily managed from the center, and that one of its key effects is the elimination of organic local ideas and traditions.
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"...would recommend uh to your listeners is seeing the state by James Scott yeah he makes the argument that a bureaucracy what a proxy..."
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"...is a really good book called Seeing a State. It's by James Scott, published by Yale University Press. Fantastic book. If you are interested..."
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"Okay? That came about during this time. First, the growth of market exchange encouraged uniformity in measures. So capitalism. Second, both popular sentiment and..."
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"...do i mean by this so this is a book by james scott"
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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