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The James C. Scott Memorial Episode - by Santi Ruiz

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“Scott, by God, that man has earned it.”

Today, my guest is writer, thinker, and friend Dan Wang. He was on Statecraft a year ago, to talk about his book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, which many of you will have read. Dan argued that China is an engineering state and the United States a lawyerly society, and that this distinction explains a lot of the differences between our two societies. But this time, we’re talking about a scholar who has deeply shaped both of our thinking, the great James C. Scott, author of (among many other classics) Seeing Like a State. How Scott’s fieldwork helped him understand peasant…

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