Governing economic life

“To be more precise: the transformation of structures of production is possible only if individuals ‘optimize’ their relation to themselves and to work (Miller and Rose 1990; Donzelot 1991).”

“…leading authorities, the 'strengthening' of corporate culture enhances organizational performance by securing greater commitment and flexibility from employees (e.g. Davis, 1984 ; Deal and Kennedy, 1982 ; Goldsmith and Clutterbuck, 1984 ; Kanter, 1984, 1990 ; Ouchi, 1981 ; Pascale, 1985 ; Peters…”

“One virtue of numbers is that they easily circulate and seem straightforward to interpret, making it possible to monitor or govern ‘‘at a distance’’ (Miller and Rose 1990; Cohen 1982; Scott 1998).”

“(Foucault 1991a, 92, 99–101; see Meuret 1993; Miller and Rose 1990) discipline Foucault repeatedly pointed out that the power of the economy was vested on a prior “economics of power” since the accumulation of capital presumes technologies of production and forms of labor that enable putting to use…”

“Shifts of responsibility from the state to the private sector also take place in areas such as pensions, welfare and health care (Miller & Rose, 1990; Donzelot, 1991; O’Malley, 1996) where responsibilization functions as a technique for the self-management and self-regulation of social risks such…”

“Using these ideas in her interpretation of professionalism as a disciplinary mechanism, Fournier (1999), following Miller and Rose (1990), has explored professionalism as the government of professional practice ‘at a distance’.”

“…economic things become calculable through particular metrics and languages (Desrosières, 1998; Espeland and Stevens, 1998; Hopwood and Miller, 1994; Miller and Rose, 1990; Power, 1996), that have studied the performative capacities of economic knowledge (Callon, 1998; MacKenzie, 2003, 2004, 2006;…”

“labour; the autonomy of professional practice is predicated upon its government ‘at a distance’ (Miller and Rose, 1990) through the articulation of ‘professional competence’.”

“…for making the world 'work better', but, in addition, it also enables these programmes 'to be translated into a range of technologies to administer individuals and groups in a way . . . consonant with prevailing ethical systems and political mentalities' (Miller and Rose, 1990, p. 24; Rose, 1990).”

“…that were amenable to rational knowledge and calculation (Morgan, 2012; Suzuki, 2003), so too a variety of organizations in recent decades have come to be viewed increasingly as economic entities (Burchell, Clubb, & Hopwood, 1985; Hines, 1988; Hirschman, 1977; Miller & Rose, 1990; Tribe, 1978).”

“Using these ideas in her interpretation of professionalism as a disciplinary mechanism, Fournier (1999), following Miller and Rose (1990), has explored professionalism as the government of professional practice ‘at a distance’.”

“Speci cally, three analytical constructs – political rationality, governmental strategy, and governmental self-regulation (see Foucault 1991; Gordon 1991; Miller and Rose 1990 for summaries of this method) – generate important critical questions.”

“…forces tend to manipulate power and knowledge to secure recognition of the boundaries, geometries, temporalities, typical economic agents, tendencies and counter-tendencies, distinctive overall dynamic, and reproduction requirements of different imagined economies (Daly 1991; Miller and Rose 1993).”

“Miller and Rose (1990, p. 19) argue that governing an enterprise operates through”

“(Inda, 2005: 9; Miller and Rose, 1990: 8; Rose and Miller, 1992: 183) Let us once again note two theoretical implications of this perspective.”

“Much accounting literature has evolved along this line of argumentation: a powerful and aspiring centre has been shown to remake people and things in its name (see Miller & Power, 2013, p. 561).”

“Using these ideas in her interpretation of professionalism as a disciplinary mechanism, Fournier (1999), following Miller and Rose (1990), has explored professionalism as the control of professional practice ‘at a distance’.”

“…the margins of accounting and the conditions under e The Editorial Board of The Sociological Review 1998 177 which these are altered, we can begin to unravel the intrinsic links between accounting and changing modes of governing the enterprise (Burchell et al., 1980; Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“… [it can transform social spaces] into a laboratory in which the ‘experiment’ is to conduct novel forms of calculation while at the same time seeking to devise novel forms of personhood and identity” (see also: Miller and Rose 1990; Miller and Napier 1993; Miller 2004).”

“…correspond almost perfectly to the research agenda set for cultural studies by Grossberg in his provocative call to theoretical arms: Doing a different kind of – conjunctural – economics involves recognizing that the economy is not only overdetermined but also multiple, relational and discursive.”

“For example, a number of different commentators note the affinity between guru theory and the values of the politico-ethical project of developing an enterprise culture fostered by the Reagan and Thatcher administrations (du Guy, 1990; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose, 1990; Silver, 1987).”

“…of knowledge like the economy (Mitchell, 2002), growth (Miller and Rose, 1990) or credit scores (Poon, 2009; Carruthers, 2010), but also new categories of thought (Carruthers and Espeland,1991; Valverde, 2003), andtheydirect attention inparticular ways (Miller and Rose, 1990; MacKenzie, 2011).”

“…as a mechanism of occupational change, and in particular its power as a form of self-discipline (Foucault 1979) or control ‘at a distance’ (Miller and Rose 1990; Burchell et al. 1991; Fournier 1999) because this is a discourse constructed and utilized as much by managers in news…”

“Crisis as a moment of decisive intervention Language … provides a mechanism for rendering reality amenable to certain kinds of action (Miller and Rose 1990, 7).”

“The “entrepreneurial self” (Miller & Rose, 1990) or the “enterprising subject” (du Gay, 1996) is responsible and actively engaged in creating a new, better, self-motivated self.”

“…in return for an ``extended present'' (Nowotny, 1988, p. 26±27) that has planned for change; the budget brings both the future and the past into objecti®ed forms that can be ``repeatedly recalled, analyzed and accumulated'' (Ezzamel & Robson, 1995, p. 164; Hopwood, 1989; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“…on quantification across these domains of personal life, organizations, and markets; how it evolved in the past twenty years or so (since Desrosières 1998, Espeland & Stevens 1998, Hacking 1990, Miller & O’Leary 1987, Miller & Rose 1990, Porter 1995, Power 1997); and its implications for sociology.”

“Shore and Wright (2000, p. 61) contend that the ‘‘the key to this system of governmentality lies in inculcating new norms and values by which external regulatory mechanisms transform the conduct of organizations and individuals in their capacity as ‘self-actualising agents’ so as to achieve political objectives throug…”

“…of the seemingly banal mechanisms which make this form of government a practical possibility – ‘techniques of notation, computation and calculation; procedures of examination and assessment … the standardization of systems for training and the inculcation of habits’ (Miller and Rose, 1990, p. 8).”

“Instead, neoliberal approaches to fisheries themselves mark a profound geographical transformation in the political economy of the oceans.”

“Work on governmentality (Foucault 1991; Miller & Rose 1990, 1995) provides a vocabulary for thinking about the ways in which accounting functions as a “technology of government”.”

“…the capacity of populations and individuals to govern themselves, has spurred a lot of focus on the material technologies used in government and management, such as architecture, examinations and surveys, metrics and statistics, etc. (Hacking, 2007; Miller and Rose, 1990; Power, 1997; Rose, 1999).”

“Governmentality is characterised by particular ways ``of thinking about the kinds of problems that can and should be addressed by various authorities'' (Miller and Rose, 1990, page 2).”

“The reification of the entrepreneur self, an individual that considers work not a threat to freedom, but rather as an essence for self-realization (Miller & Rose, 1990), sees social relations are “central to value production” (Gandini, 2016, p. 125).”

“…of spaces, Foucault in particular was very interested in how domains of organisation and administration operated through the power relations embedded in local practices, through the “apparently humble and mundane mechanisms which appear to make it possible to govern” (Miller and Rose, 1993, p. 83).”

“…one which pays great attention to the actual mechanisms through which authorities of various sorts have sought to shape, normalize and instrumentalize the conduct, thought, decisions and aspirations of others in order to achieve the objectives they consider desirable (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 8).”

“2 This thesis, which will be developed later in the paper, is rendered all the more suggestive, because neo-liberalism was founded and promoted by the convergence or coincidence of ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ liberationist discourses that deŽ ned themselves against the authoritarianism of expertise (Rose 1996), and such conver…”

“The appeal to professionalism can be seen as a powerful motivating force of control ‘at a distance’ (Miller and Rose 1990, Burchell et al. 1991).”

“Such technologies may be apparently humble and mundane mechanisms such as techniques of notation, systems of training, professional specialisms and vocabularies (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Thought of in this way the silencing of discourses of pleasure with respect to unwanted activities, such as the inappropriate consumption of drugs, appears as a strategy integral to liberal government’s attempts to ‘govern at a distance’ (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“As a way of thinking about the project of government, in its widest sense, neoliberalism has sought since the Second World War to construct citizenship in terms of the ability of individuals to monitor and regulate their own behavior, both as ‘‘entrepreneurs’’ and as ‘‘consumers’’ (Burchell 1993; Lemke 2001; Miller an…”

“Nor is my goal to discredit studies that empirically describe how individuals’ desires and populations’ interests are shaped through numbers (e.g. Miller & O’Leary, 1987; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“This long lineage of neoliberalism – which *Rose (1991) also associates with the lineage of democracy – casts light on the seductive appeal of neoliberal policies, which the critical research generally finds difficult to recognise,14 having failed to continue the reflection initiated by *Humphrey, Miller, Scapens (199…”