Governing economic life

“Underlying the concept is the fiction of separable economic units and aspirations to use accounting as a tool for the mapping and managing of social and economic relations (Hopwood, 1984; Miller, 2001; and Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“…state can regulate individuals and businesses without abrogating the rights of ostensibly ‘free’ agents acting in the private sphere of ‘civil society’ or violating norms of the market, which emphasise corporate independence and freedom of choice (see Hann and Dunn, 1996; Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Forms of ‘expert’ knowledge are central to the activities of modern government, both for identifying the objects of government—the mad, the sick, those ‘at risk’ and so on—as well as the means of governing—e.g. cognition, calculation, experimentation and evaluation (see Johnson, 1993; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Furthermore, a range of technologies of thought such as legislation, plans, drafts, numbers and formulas may also result in focal frames and thereby, render a field of practice knowable calculable and administrable (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Political rationalities, as governmentality theorists explain, are shifting and always contested ‘procedures for representing and intervening’ (Miller and Rose, 1990: 7).”

“Informing this deconstruction is the theoretical framework associated with the works of Foucault (1981), Donzelot (1980), Miller and Rose (1990) and Parton (1991).”

“Again, this continued reinforcement of the validity of standardised data, including using NAPLAN as part of a critique of ‘in-the-head-judgements’, indicates the normalisation of a broader process of governing by numbers (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“The technologies were accompanied—in the shape of justifi cations, explanations and ascription of values—by a coherent way of positing problems and invoking ideals (Bejerot and Hasselbladh, 2006; Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“(Miller & Rose, 1990: 7) In other words, in terms of governmentality, information in general and accounting information in particular, render the ‘local’ known to (represented by) the ‘centre’, thus enabling the latter to establish control over, and convey its preferences to, the former (Hopwood,…”

“Government is exercised at a distance and technologies help link calculations in one place with action in another, establishing loose assemblages of agents and agencies, humans and non-humans (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“For the most part, practices of legibility have been regarded as those that involve technical calculations and their material manifestation such forms of census, standard setting or mapping (Miller and Rose 1990; Li 2007; Scott 1988).”

“(176) From Rose, we understand that the community emerges as an integral apparatus to normalize conduct specifically through decisions and aspirations of others so as to achieve the governing outcomes considered acceptable and desirable (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“The liberal state is in need of logics and justifications to guide its actions, though these will typically involve respecting and exiting ‘the economy’ as a zone of autonomy and freedom (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Supporting this observation Miller and Rose (1990: 26) remark that ‘the “autonomous” subjectivity of the productive individual has become a central economic resource, such (QM) programmes promise to turn autonomy into an ally of economic success and not an obstacle to be controlled and disciplined’.”

“Additionally, the particular language of accounting is complex and includes discursive representations and vocabularies (Miller and Rose, 1990; Arnold et al., 1994; Miller, 1994; Potter, 2005).”

“The point is that a state imposing laws on men is no longer a central figure in governing society; instead a new form of governing, the target of which is the population, is made understandable through new statistical technologies (Miller and Rose, 1990; Foucault, 1991; Dean, 1999; Rose, 1999), providing a very differ…”

“The struggle is reproduced in the ® ne grain practices of policy analysis and planning, explaining Foucault’s emphasis on analysing these ª apparently humble and mundane mechanisms which appear to make it possible to governº (Miller & Rose, 1993, p. 83).”

“Not, of course, that they produce the effects that the planners imagine; while strategies for the government of conduct are eternally optimistic, their schemes are congenitally failing (Miller and Rose, 1990: 10).”

“Foucauldian ideas about capillary power were developed by Miller and Rose (1990) into a new concern with liberal governmentality and the production of self-governing capabilities which then opened up all kinds of new possibilities of a history of technologies and subjectivities.”

“…(Polanyi, 1957), then we have to understand how those revenue streams are constituted, especially by examining the deployment of specific techno-economic mechanisms that can smooth out the lumpiness or bumpiness of cash flows over time and space (Leyshon & Thrift, 2007; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“…despite their differences, are united and connected by their adherence to similar worldviews: ‘It is, in part, through adopting shared vocabularies, theories and explanations, that loose and flexible associations may be established between agents across time and space’ (Miller and Rose 1990, 10).”

“In this way, the media contribute to the expansion of the ‘governmentality’, which depends on crucial respects upon the intellectual technologies, practical activities, and social authority associated with expertise (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Future research could usefully be directed at studying how interest discourse is used to persuade citizens that it is ‘in their interests’ to do something (Callon & Law, 1982: 618), such as engage in particular calculative practices (Miller & Rose, 1990; Rose, 1991).”

“For example, ‘the economy’ is enabled as a field that can be governed and evaluated in order to increase wealth and profit (Miller and Rose 1990: 6).”

“…a theme which is beyond the scope of this paper (since it would necessitate a far more wide-ranging debate comparing neo-Grascian analyses, and other neo-Marxist analyses, with those more faithful to a Foucauldian perspective such as that of Miller and Rose 1990, and Rose and Miller 1992).”

“…of power are described as “ actual mechanisms through which authorities of various sorts have sought to shape, normal-ise, and instrumentalise the conduct, thought, decisions and aspirations of others in order to achieve the objectives they consider desirable ” (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 8).”

“The governmentality framework provides a set of characteristics that allows us to understand how such technologies or objects are established, as well as their implications for instilling control and power (Dean, 2010; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992).”

“This early work applied the Foucauldian notion of governmentality (Foucault, 1991), particularly as developed by the British scholars Rose and Miller (Miller & Rose, 1990), to public health in terms that emphasized the conduct of conduct, the operation of expert knowledge at the individual and population level, and th…”

“…economic policies through this framework, showing that a new set of concerns regarding the governmental shaping of individual behaviour emerged, particularly in terms of techniques that do not affect the autonomy of individuals (Barry et al., 1996; Burchell et al., 1991; Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“First, and most simply, government within a nationestate involves agencies and forces other than what is conventionally conceived as the government (see also Miller & Rose, 1990 ).”

“And the language of individual freedom, personal choice and self-fulfilment has come to underpin programmes of government articulated across the political spectrum, from politicians, pressure groups and civil libertarians alike (Miller & Rose 1990:24).”

“…freedoms of the academic community, we may instead consider the ways in which the ‘marketization’ of the university may have been achieved precisely through the mobilization and preservation of certain degrees of freedom and autonomy in the academy (see Townley 1993, 1997; cf. Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Informed by Miller and Rose’s work on governing economic life, Ogden (1997) provides a detailed analysis of the process by which the customer was constructed in the wake of the privatization of the ten English and Welsh Regional Water Authorities in 1989.”

“However, as a number of scholars have pointed out, these self-regulating abilities of individuals are carefully managed; they are “shaped and normalized in large part through the powers of expertise” (Miller & Rose, 1990, p. 2).”

“…the purposes of understanding it, categorising it, and rendering its finding malleable for concrete action in non-discursive domains (Foucault 1991; Miller and Rose 1990; Heath-Kelly 2013) Discourse here claims the authority of the sciences, employing its models, theories, language, and methods.”

“…and Mael, 1989; Garsten and Grey, 1997; Hancock and Tyler, 2004; Haslam, 2004; Salaman and Storey, 2008; Thomas and Linstead, 2002) and (2) neo-liberal regimes of government (see Cornelius et al., 2008; Dean, 1999, 2007; Foucault, 2008; Harvey, 2005; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose, 1989, 1999, 2007).”

“Studies in governmentality have been concerned with the emergence and transformation of these power techniques (commonly referred to as “technologies of government”) and how they are utilised by the “authorities of various sorts … to shape, normalise and instrumentalize the conduct, thought, decisions and aspirations…”

“(Miller and Rose 1990, 75) · Going further, and following Foucault’s de nition of ‘government’ as ‘the conduct of conduct’ (Foucault 1980, 119), the term is used ‘as a more general term for any calculated direction of human conduct’ (Dean 1999, 3).”