Governing economic life

“…for the environmental governance of agriculture require that state agencies shape not only the context within which actors make decisions (Miller and Rose, 1990; see also Foucault, 1991) but also the ways in which actors make sense of and respond to this context by means of their…”

“…role played by–and collaboration between -accountants and other experts at the local, regional, national levels, during and after the emergency, in order to design technologies of government (Miller, 1998; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992) and governance to meet public interest needs.”

“” The actual mechanisms through which governmental authority seeks to make the programmes of government operable and to configure responsive subjects have been deemed the “technologies of government” (Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose and Miller, 1992).”

“…(1978) in his socio-political studies and deepened by more recent sociological investigations (Elden, 2007; Legg, 2005; Singer and Weir, 2008; Valverde, 2007) and (critical) accounting research (Dean, 1999; Miller and Rose, 1990; Murdoch and Ward, 1997; Rose and Miller, 1992; Stewart, 1992).”

“Nor is it, as some might infer, a simple instance of the outsourcing of state functions associated with “neoliberal governmentality” (Miller and Rose 1990; see also Kipnis 2008).”

“Miller and Rose ( 1990 ) show how personal autonomy, self‐fulfilment, self‐presentation, self‐direction and self‐management are constructed as beneficial both for individual and for businesses.”

“These ‘technologies of government’ seek to translate thought into the domain of reality and to establish “in the world of persons and things spaces and devices for acting upon those entities of which they dream and scheme” (Miller and Rose, 1993, p. 82).”

“This example of cluster policy in North East England, is a clear instance of attempts to generate the ‘action at distance’ that defines governmentality (Miller & Rose 1990).”

“We are now in a situation where we, as social citizens, are expected to be self-regulators of our actions and bodies (Miller and Rose, 1990; Castel, 1991; Higgs, 1998).”

“While the earlier, widely discussed imaginary of enterprise emphasized work ethics, self-discipline, and success (Du Gay, 1996; Lane, 2011; Miller & Rose, 1990), we are witnessing a shift toward a new imaginary, which I dub the “self-work romantic utopia.””

“For states to make policy or estimate revenue, it is necessary to first know how many people would be affected and how much something would cost (Scott, 1998), often for leaders distant from their subjects (Miller & Rose, 1990; Rose et al., 2006).”

“RAs receive their funding, mandate, and clients from the state yet they are governed ‘at a distance’ (Miller and Rose 1990), responsible for independently completing their daily obligations and finding their own solutions to problems as they arise.”

“These shifts have often applied a prospective principle of responsibility distribution that goes well with notions of marketembedded claims to morality and responsibility (Miller & Rose 1990; Donzelot 1991; O’Malley 1996; Rose 1999; Shamir 2008).”

“Tracking this transformation from external advice into self-imposed conditions is important since it shows how the IFIs “govern at a distance,” to use a phrase coined by Miller and Rose (1990).”

“In the barest terms, CDS drive a wedge between risk and responsibility (cf. Miller and Rose 1990; O’Malley 2000).”

“It will be demonstrated that the military provides a clear example of the use of the discourse of professionalism 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).”

“Governmental identities become tied to practices of self-government, and implicating individuals in forms of self-government to align their own self-regulating capacities with governmental aspirations (Larner and Walters, 2000; Lemke, 2001; Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Drawing on their seminal works (Miller & Rose, 1990; Rose & Miller, 1992), the paper views accounting as a calculative technology for governing individuals and populations.”

“Economics is generally defined as the study of human activities related to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Numbers need to be both stable to be transferred across spaces without distortion, but also mobile, combinable and comparable to enable further calculations and judgements (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“…(2002), Sánchez-Matamoros et al. (2005), Yayla (2011) and Lai et al. (2012) have provided evidence of the role of accounting as a link between “governmentality” and “disciplinary power”, exploring the capacity of accounting to manage populations at a distance (Latour, 1987; Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“Governmentality is a certain contemporary rationality and mode of exercise of power based in systems of knowledge (Foucault, 1991; Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose et al., 2006).”

“2), re iteration being necessary as the operation repeatedly fails in its effects (Miller & Rose, 1993 ), producing instead sometimes undisciplined and unruly subjects.”

“The notion of reshaping the range of meanings attaching to professions is suggestive of Foucaultian ideas about power/knowledge (Foucault, 1980), and the dynamics of professionalisation have been analysed using Foucault’s notion of governmentality (Bondi, forthcoming b; Fournier, 1999; Miller and Rose, 1990; Osborne,…”

“Effectively biopedagogies operate as what Miller and Rose (1990) refer to as technologies of governmentality.”

“The social costs image and its accompanying knowledge base signify and represent reality in a particular way, but at the same time, real life also always manages to escape, since ‘[r]eality is too unruly to be captured by any perfect knowledge’ (Miller and Rose 1993, 85).”

“The second understanding is taking the form of ethics (Miller and Rose, 1990).”

“…and manifest through the exercise of personal choice among a variety of options constructs parents as citizen consumers who are expected to engage with the market both as consumers of schools’ use value and as producers of its exchange value (Miller and Rose 1993, Kenway and Bullen 2001).”

“Nation states are privatising public services whilst developing sophisticated technologies to govern, survey, audit and monitor them: in other words, ‘government at a distance’ (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“[27] Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose, ‘‘Governing Economic Life.”

“We see that governance through bureaucratization moves the process of defining social sustainability from the political arena to the bureaucratic realm thereby obscuring power struggles and the political aspects of such negotiation (see also Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“Once measured, it can be acted upon and thus governed (Miller and Rose 1990).”

“Accounting practices and language rendered reality “thinkable and calculable”, into a form “susceptible to evaluation, calculation and intervention” and therefore amenable to problematization and administration (Miller & Rose, 1990, p.7).”

“However, this conceptualisation takes place in line with political rationalities, as Miller & Rose (1990) explain: ‘[l]anguage here serves as a translation mechanism between the general and the particular, establishing a kind of identity and mutuality between political rationalities and regulatory…”

“In constructing a de ned terrain of discourse and material engagement, policy ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ become limited to speci c elds of action (Miller and Rose, 1990; Rose, 2000).”

“As Miller and Rose (1990) put it, From the eighteenth-century invention of statistics as the science of state, to the present attempts to evaluate the economic life of the nation by measuring the money supply or the efficiency of health services by turning their endeavours into cash equivalents,…”

“Their separation physically and geographically from Australia enables action at a distance (Miller and Rose, 1990), exposing them to “ inhumane conditions, solitary confinement, lack of basic essentials and medical care, physical and sexual abuse and severe overcrowding ” (The Refugee Council of…”

“Rationalities refer to the reasons and non-neutral knowledge behind government’s created system (Miller and Rose, 1990, 2008; Rose et al., 2006), while technologies include the actual mechanisms that shape, normalize, and instrumentalize individuals’ conduct (Miller and Rose, 2008).”

“This work draws our attention to the relations of power that are immanent in knowledge, and the way that knowledge and the activities of experts play a central role in contemporary systems of governance (Foucault 1979, 1990, 1991 Miller and Rose 1993, Johnson 1993).”

“…texts produced through interviewing and note-taking were treated as sources of knowledge, since knowledge is embedded in all social practices that ‘entail meaning’ (Hall, 1997, p. 291), that is, not only in spoken and written language, but also in the way we think and behave (Miller & Rose, 1990).”

“All rights reserved. to a multitude of social spheres and agencies, enabling and constraining personal freedoms in order to secure state power and achieve government objectives (Dean, 1999; Miller and Rose, 1990; Swyngedouw, 2005).”

“Whereas most historical research on accounting as a technology for governing peoples focus on the accumulation of knowledge in centres of calculation, the current paper also emphasises the experience of those on the periphery (Miller & Rose, 1990; Neu, 2000; Neu & Graham, 2006; Graham, 2010).”

“(Miller and Rose 1990, 8) Within changing modes of government of economic life, the significance of accounting technologies is beginning to be better appreciated and developed (Robson 1991, 552).”

“The theory of nodal governance offers one means to capture the often diffuse and complex strategies through which governance operates.(28) Governance, here, refers to the attempt to manage the flow of events within a larger social system defined by a high degree of complexity.”

“…the presentation of demographic data in the form of tables, graphs, and diagrams is a key mechanism through which the population is rendered as an entity to be known and organised (Barnes and Hannah, 2001) and thus made `̀ amenable to intervention and regulation'' (Miller and Rose, 1990, page 5).”

“Through deregulation and the promotion of market rule, neoliberals have sought to influence both the environment within which people make decisions (Miller and Rose, 1990), and the ways in which they are likely to understand and respond to that environment (Burchell, 1993).”