I think there's a whole book about this: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seei

I think there's a whole book about this: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State