Journal•ISSN: 0308-5147
Economy and Society
Taylor & Francis
About: Economy and Society is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Capitalism. It has an ISSN identifier of 0308-5147. Over the lifetime, 1514 publications have been published receiving 69819 citations. The journal is also known as: On law in economy and society.
Topics: Politics, Capitalism, Corporate governance, Government, Democracy
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TL;DR: This article argued that governmentality has a characteristically "programmatic" form, and that it is inextricably bound to the invention and evaluation of technologies that seek to improve government power.
Abstract: This paper proposes some new ways of analysing the exercise of political power in advanced liberal democratic societies These are developed from Michel Foucault's conception of ‘governmentality’ and addresses political power in terms of ‘political rationalities’ and ‘technologies of government’ It draws attention to the diversity of regulatory mechanisms which seek to give effect to government, and to the particular importance of indirect mechanisms that link the conduct of individuals and organizations to political objectives through ‘action at a distance’ The paper argues for the importance of an analysis of language in understanding the constitution of the objects of politics, not simply in terms of meaning or rhetoric, but as ‘intellectual technologies’ that render aspects of existence amenable to inscription and calculation It suggests that governmentality has a characteristically ‘programmatic’ form, and that it is inextricably bound to the invention and evaluation of technologies that seek to g
2,488 citations
TL;DR: This paper focused on Foucault's analysis of two forms of neo-liberalism in his lecture of 1979 at the College de France: German post-War liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School.
Abstract: This paper focuses on Foucault's analysis of two forms of neo-liberalism in his lecture of 1979 at the College de France: German post-War liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School. Since the course is available only on audio-tapes at the Foucault archive in Paris, the larger part of the text presents a comprehensive reconstruction of the main line of argumentation, citing previously unpublished source material. The final section offers a short discussion of the methodological and theoretical principles underlying the concept of governmentality and the critical political angle it provides for an analysis of contemporary neo-liberalism.
1,862 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors translated M. Mauss (1973 [1936]) and Ben Brewster (1936) into English and translated them into the technical terms Techniques of the body.
Abstract: From M. Mauss (1973 [1936]) ‘Techniques of the body’, translated by Ben Brewster, Economy and Society 2: 70–88.
1,626 citations
TL;DR: In the past two decades, the ideology of shareholder value has become entrenched as a principle of corporate governance among companies based in the United States and Britain this article and has become prominent in the corporate governance debates in European nations such as Germany, France and Sweden.
Abstract: Over the past two decades the ideology of shareholder value has become entrenched as a principle of corporate governance among companies based in the United States and Britain. Over the past two or three years, the rhetoric of shareholder value has become prominent in the corporate governance debates in European nations such as Germany, France and Sweden. Within the past year, the arguments for ‘maximizing shareholder value’ have even achieved prominence in Japan. In 1999 the OECD issued a document, The OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, that emphasizes that corporations should be run, first and foremost, in the interests of shareholders (OECD, 1999)
1,533 citations
TL;DR: This article argued that the social is no longer a key zone, traget and objective of strategies of government, arguing that economic relations are no longer easily understood as organized as organized across a single bounded national economy.
Abstract: The social, as a plane of thought and action, has been central to political thought and political programmes since the mid-nineteenth century. This paper argues that, while themes of society and concerns with social cohesion and social justice are still significant in political argument, the social is no longer a key zone, traget and objective of strategies of government. The rise of the language of globalization indicates that economic relations are no longer easily understood as organized across a single bounded national economy. Community has become a new spatialization of government: heterogeneous, plural, linking individuals, families and others into contesting cultrual assemblies of identities and allegiances. Divisions among the subjects of government are coded in new ways; neither included nor excluded are governed as social citizens. Non-political strategies are deployed for the management of expert authority. Anti-political motifs such as associationism and communitarianism which do not seek to ...
1,460 citations