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James C. Scott, iconoclastic social scientist, dies aged 87
NEW YORK – Professor James C. Scott, one of the world’s most widely read social scientists, whose studies on why top-down government schemes of betterment often fail and how marginalised groups subtly undermine authority led to his embrace of anarchism as …