Governing economic life

“Central to prior work on governmentality (Foucault, 1991, p. 102; Miller & Rose, 1990) has been recognition of the importance of a particular subset of governmental technologies, which we are calling ‘‘informing’’ technologies.”

“…‘governmentality’, desired performance is increasingly assured through continuous self-reporting and self-evaluation, whereby actors and organizations participate in their own governance, making themselves ‘auditable’ (Power 1997) and amenable to control ‘at a distance’ (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“Miller and Rose's ( 1990 ) term ‘government at a distance’ (inspired by Latour's ( 1987 ) ‘action at a distance’) captures how calculative practices of this kind operate on a distance and affect actions in places and by people who are not subject to any direct control.”

“By representing activities, processes and events in financial terms, accounting creates ways in which those individuals and organizations may be thought about and acted upon (see also Miller and O’Leary, 1987, 1990; Miller and Rose, 1990; Porter, 1992; Bougen, 1994; Callon, 1998; Young, 1995b; Walker, 2004).”

“…to this system lies in inculcating new norms and values by which external regulatory mechanisms transform the conduct of organisations and individuals in their capacity as ‘self-actualising’ agents, so as to achieve political objectives through ‘action at a distance’ (Miller & Rose, 1993, p. 1).”

“That is, individuals are constitued as subjects capable of operating a regulated autonomy (Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992; Humphrey et al., 1993; Miller, 1994).”

“…been extending traditional preoccupations with business enterprises towards the employment of numbers in programmes and technologies of government (Miller & Rose, 1990), and the respective roles of accounting professionals (for an overview see e.g. Cooper & Robson, 2006) across the sectors and…”

“They are also shaped by material things, technical instruments as well as wider ideas, concepts and discursive rationalities (see e.g. Callon, 1998; Hacking, 1992; Latour, 2005; Law & Hassard, 1999; Miller & O'Leary, 1994; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Governmentality is intimately connected to modernity, as a working of power which grows out of the modern form of rule through defining, producing and controlling subjects (populations) just as much as territory (Foucault, 1991 ; Miller & Rose, 1993 ).”

“Proponents of globalization, in which hegemony rests not in a single nation-state but in myriad international institutions united by a liberal, market-centered ideology, face three important challenges ( McMichael, 1996 ).”

“We dispute the widely accepted notion that the ‘language of the market becomes the only vocabulary’, entering every sphere of human existence (Cremin, 2003; du Gay, 1996; du Gay and Salaman, 1992; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose, 1999) and, therefore, seek in this paper to bring customer agency back into the analysis of c…”

“Without attributing causality, ‗assemblage‘ describes the relationship between heterogeneous contributors to governance that work together as a ‗networked‘ and functional entity, but do not necessarily have any other unity (see Haggerty & Ericson, 2000, p. 605; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“3 The notion of governmentality was more popular among critical accounting scholars, especially in relation to the statistical management of populations (see Miller and Rose, 1990, 2008).”

“Were only the ’humble and mundane’ mechanisms (Miller and Rose, 1990: 8) at stake, ’means of government’ would be a perfectly serviceable alternative.”

“A number of writers have recently attempted to relocate and develop the analysis of the state in terms of the 'problematics of government' (Burchell et al., 1991; Miller and Rose, 1990; Parton, 1991; Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992), and argue that analyses that assume that the exercise of political power should beg…”

“…and geodemographic data, the financial system has become dependent upon what actornetwork theorists describe as `̀ at-a-distance mechanisms'' (Miller and Rose, 1990; page 2),(2) where practices based upon `̀ Intuition and rule of thumb'' (page 16) have been replaced by technologies that…”

“…to push economy ‘beyond economism’ – that is, beyond the economy as a pre-discursive, pre-political and self-evident material reality – economy is used here to denote a field of intervention and a specific means of rendering political life governable (Miller and Rose 1990, de Goede 2003, 2005).”

“the definition of ‘government’ is extended to a complex of networks and apparatuses, linking the machinery of state with civil and market society, and individual behaviour (Foucault 1991; Burchell et al. 1991; Miller and Rose 1990; Rose and Miller 1992; Rose 1990, 1993).”

“For accountancy the project of translating spontaneous human effort into financial measures has long sought to bring workforce practices under control (Miller and O’Leary, 1987, 1989, 1994a, 1994b; Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Yet, as a number of writers have suggested (Gordon 1980; Miller & Rose 1990, 2008; Rose & Miller 1992), programmes and technologies, rationales and devices, ideas and instruments, need to be analysed conjointly if we are to understand the governing of economic life.”

“…CloudNine programs the employment relationship in a way that releases and channels the ‘psychological strivings of human beings for autonomy’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 26) and mobilizes the social forces of the community in a way that secures the efficient functioning of the free enterprise…”

“Centralized monitoring and control systems exemplify EGM gambling's governability (Miller and Rose, 1990 ), and assure collection of government revenues, as well as helping to legitimate gambling liberalization via the perceived independence of technology from corruption.”

“These are generally focused on specific policies or policy apparatuses and/or specific political discourses and strategies (e.g. Barry et al., 1996; Burchell et al., 1991; Cooper 1998; Hindess and Mitchell 1998; Miller and Rose 1990; Neocleous 1996; Rose 1999; Rose and Miller 1992).”

“While researchers should always be careful when entering the realm of the normative (Flyvbjerg, 2001; Miller and Rose, 1990), I feel that concerns with journal ranking dynamics are sufficiently developed and credible to formulate a series of questions that ponder the consequences of the rankings’…”

“This term does not characterize a form of society, but rather, a mode of government (Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992).”

“Certainly, he is correct that individuals in modern society are in some ways imbued with greater freedom (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“Whether they govern less or more, modes of governance and forms of organizing thus have a gerundive or unfinished aspect, implying that they are very likely to fail and prove unable to fulfil their initial promises (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“An important extension of this research has focused on understanding how and why the domain of accounting has been extended and reconstituted in contemporary society (Miller, 1994; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“…on economic governance through markets that we acknowledge but lack the space to discuss are the literature inspired by Michel Foucault’s work on ‘governmentality’ (Miller and Rose, 1990) and the literature in economic geography on the ‘marketization’ of public policy (Birch and Siemiatycki, 2015).”

“Such practices of performance measurement have the capability to turn some aspects of knowing and practising into forms of information that ‘are stable, mobile, combinable and comparable’ (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 7).”

“We can specify and differentiate political rationalities in terms of the particular languages within which its objects and objectives are construed, and the grammar of analyses and prescriptions they make use of (Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992).”

“Work then becomes essential to one’s self‐realization, blurring the boundaries between the economic, the social, and the psychological (Miller and Rose 1993 , 27).”

“Miller and Rose (1990) call this the &dquo;language of enterprise&dquo;: when given full voice, employees from the bottom to the top are labeled &dquo;empowered,&dquo; urged to take ownership of their jobs, called on to act as their own bosses and to behave as if they are running their own little…”

“Workplace and regional economic policies focus on activities that enhance self-promotion, individualization and becoming an entrepreneur or the self (Gordon 1991; Miller and Rose 1990).”

“…who have developed Foucault’s concept of governmentality, suggest that technologies of self-tracking are part of processes that “seek to act upon and instrumentalize the self-regulating propensities of individuals in order to ally them with socio-political objectives” (Miller and Rose 1990, 28).”

“Constructing a responsible ‘calculating subject’ relies on a technology of human being, which treats conduct as divisible into discrete behavioural components ‘susceptible to evaluation, calculation and intervention’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 7), before being re-assembled in modified form.”

“The use of power is therefore as much about the making up of citizens capable of ‘regulated freedom’ as it is about direct intervention (Johnson, 1993; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Miller and Rose (1990) and Carruthers and Espeland (1991)”

“They not only constrain particular actors' choices, but, more importantly, shape the field in which such choices can be made (compare Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Discourses are technologies of power that act as “. an inspecting gaze, a gaze which each individual under its weight will end by internalising to the point that he is his own supervisor, each individual thus exercising surveillance over, and against, himself {sic}” (Miller & Rose, 1993, p. 223).”