Governing economic life

“The article owes much to the body of Foucauldian and post-structuralist literature on the topics of surveillance and discipline (Deleuze, 1992; Miller and Rose, 1990; Poster, 1990), particularly as these aspects relate to consumer finance (Kear, 2013; Langley, 2008; Marron, 2007).”

“…then parallels the rise of the national economy as a consequential domain that depicts the vital conditions of each nation-state in a broadly legible manner (a legibility enhanced by its achieved distance from embodied perspectives and historical relations) (Miller and Rose 1990; Mitchell 1998).”

“Automatic techniques for the control of public space, like CCTV, can be described, in this sense, as techniques of governance at a distance (see Miller and Rose, 1993).”

“…on discipline alone have been the focus of work in areas like: accountancy (Maclullich, 2003); community development (Schofield, 2002); economics (Miller and Rose, 1990); government (Higgins, 2004; Merlingen, 2003); law (Smith, 2000); education (CarpenterandTait,2001;Race, 2000);management…”

“From such a perspective, there is a need to take account of the ‘apparently humble and mundane mechanisms which appear to make it possible to govern’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 8; see also Rose, 1999: 5).”

“Using Foucauldian analyses of governments (Miller & O’Leary, 1987; Miller & Rose, 1990; Rose, 1991; Rose & Miller, 1992; Miller, 1994), the results of a study of change in accounting and accountability practices within the Sultan Süleyman Waqf (SSW) of the Ottoman Empire are presented.”

“During this time, new ‘technologies of government’ (Miller and Rose, 1990) were forged to maximize receipt collection by the State and minimize fraud, provide the flow of cash receipts, ensure ‘accounting inscriptions’ (Robson, 1991, 1992) and financial information controllable ‘at a distance’ (Latour, 1987), and make…”

“As a system of ideas and calculative rationality, risk embodies a project to align the discourse of finance with the subjectivity of liberalism and ring fence the financial system behind a veil of precision (Bernstein 1992, 1996; Ewald 1991; Holzer & Millo 2005; Miller & Rose 1990; O’Malley 2000).”

“The mundane practice of credit customer classification narrated within this paper can be viewed not only as an illustration of the disciplinary power of accounting but also its application as a technique of governance (Foucault, 1991; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Here we build on conventions in state theory which insist on the complexity of state structures, with relative incoherence of programmes and agendas across a great diversity of institutions (Jessop, 2007; Miller and Rose, 1990), and a fragmented territorial assemblage of state capacities formally attributed to differe…”

“…of the census in the 19th century (Rose 1991), the emergence of accounting as a standard tool for reporting information to centres of government (Miller and Rose 1990, Neu 1999), and the emergence of modern standardized examination procedures in the early–20th century (Stoskopf 1998, Sacks…”

“Miller and Rose (1990) are among the key exponents of this Foucauldian approach.”

“These statutes of Tibetan citizenship appear at first glance to represent a conventional shift in a state’s relationship with its population from one based around subjects and duties to one grounded in citizenship and the language of rights and social responsibilities (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“This new ethics of governance is based on the inculcation of new norms and values positioned as voluntary and benign in nature, and by which external regulatory mechanisms are to transform and monitor the conduct of organizations through ‘action at a distance’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 1).”

“Language is pivotal to the formation of regimes of truth, practice and thought, creating intelligible subjects and providing ‘a mechanism for rendering reality amenable to certain kinds of action’ (Miller & Rose 1990, p. 7).”

“…(Foucault, 1978, 1979) have documented how calculative agencies contribute to ‘govern economic life’ (Miller, 1992; Miller & Rose, 1990) within markets by creating ‘inequalities in calculative power’ (Van Hoyweghen, 2014) or by promoting a disciplinary ‘ideology of…”

“It has an inbuilt programmatic bias (Miller and Rose, 1990) towardsmanagerialism, incrementalism and bureaucracy.”

“We use the term management technologies to describe the multiple forms of representations that abbreviate, condense and represent the main features of economic environments and render these domains governable (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“…aimed at shaping economically rational actors through a ‘conduct of conduct’ – a process of ‘responsibilization’ in which individuals are given not only freedom to act individually, but also the knowledge, techniques and responsibility to be rational (Miller and Rose, 1993; Rose, 1999: 85ff.).”

“…to be translated.3 The governmentality literature in English, roughly speaking, dates from the 1991 collection and has now grown quite substantially (see Miller & Rose, 1990; Barry et al., 1996; Dean, 1999; Rose, 1999).4 As a number of scholars have pointed out, Foucault relied on a group of…”

“…& Waddock, 2011), sustainability standards such as UN Global Compact and SA8000 are assumed to stimulate, guide, and help organizations account for socially and environmentally desirable behavior and to support different constituencies in governing organizations at a distance (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Within Choosing Our Future we identified over 60 different fields of visibility which were measurable and could be regarded as centres of calculation (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“The ultimately translated CSR practices may significantly depart from regulatory bodies’ initial intentions for them, as they reflect a compromise between divergent political projects and interests (Miller and Rose, 1990), with losses and gains for all parties (Gilad, 2011; Parker and Gilad, 2011).”

“For example, Rose (1988) and Miller and Rose (1990) indicate how industrial psychologists and associated experts have been instrumental in devising programmes which link the subjective preoccupations of individual workers with the productive concerns of managers.”

“These contestations within and between numbers provide a partial explanation for the observation that governance in practice always eludes the optimistic visions of its designers (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“We rely on a Foucaul-dian theoretical foundation, as offered by gov-ernmentality approaches (Miller & Rose, 1990; Rose, 1999).”

“In coordinating corporate activity, numbers enable action at a distance (Miller and Rose, 1990; Robson, 1991) and serve to embed the notion of sustainability governance by providing a form of disciplinary architecture (Foucault, 1991).”

“This means that language and information— through, for example, the written reports, numbers and charts of the performance measurement system—play a key role in these networks (Miller and Rose, 1990, pp. 6–7, 10).”

“…about the relational materiality of power has been further elaborated and evaluated in accounting studies by highlighting the way in which calculative devices operate as ‘technologies of government’ (Foucault, 1977) and act ‘at a distance’ to govern actors (Miller & Rose, 1990; Vosselman, 2014).”

“Accounting researchers have started from the premise that accounting is a technology of governance (Miller and Rose, 1990) and have used these concepts to examine how accounting facilitates the construction, organization and ordering of social fields (Neu et al.”

“…where calculations developed in one site, for example, a government office or the headquarters of a non-governmental organization (NGO), come to shape actions in other places through the communication and resources that flow in the networks and that link up the actors (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“…in Italian political rationalities – in the wider discursive fields in which conceptions of the precise ends and means of government are articulated (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 5) – and promise the emergence of different forms of authority and more detailed division of tasks between these…”

“This process of production of the truth and spiritual direction was further reinforced by the presence of a witness, the notary, who carefully wrote down all the results, thereby underlining the prominence of “written techniques for the act of governing” (Miller and Rose, 1990, p. 5).”

“Legitimacy in terms of technically rational organization at the macro-level was in short supply with the ample evidence of the economic dysfunctions of widespread unemployment and depression (Miller & Rose, 1990, 1995).”

“Techniques of government involve ‘the exercise of a form of intellectual mastery made possible by those at a centre having information about persons and events distant from there’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 9).”

“Worker subjectivity is brought forth rather than suppressed and alienated and becomes subject to training in what some have argued to be the attempt to govern the soul (Miller and Rose 1993).”

“…to other approaches that analyse contemporary urban governance (for a recent review see e.g., Nuissl & Heinrichs, 2011), the governmentality approach offers a broad concept of “government” which “refuses the reduction of political power to the actions of the state” (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 3).”

“Action and authority combine to ‘govern-at-adistance’ (Miller and Rose, 1990); with effects on three subjectivities implicated in the debt crisis: governments, CRAs, and investors.”

“The methodological position briefly sketched above involves us in a reading of the world as constituted via discursive formations (Laclau & Mouffe, 1985; Hall, 1997; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Emerging from and reinforcing such systemic discourse are regulatory procedures and actions that serve as ‘technologies of control’, including joint patrols and community meetings, which, upon being engaged, have local leaders broker the underlying values and meanings of ‘eco-strictures’ to other farmers and next of k…”