How long does it take to read Seeing Like a State?
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott takes about 8 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 463 pages, about 127,325 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Subjects: Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects, Authoritarianism, Long Now Manual for Civilization
