Economic experts replace prudent counselors as the prince’s advisors

Evidence

But we can see that the relationship between the principle of truth and the principle of self~limitation in the prince’s wisdom is completely different from their relatiomhip in the emerging governmental practice that is anxious to lmow the natural consequences of its actions in the objects it deals with and manipulates. The prudent counselors who previously fixed limits of wisdom to the prince’s presumption no longer have anything to do with these new ‘economic experts whose task is to tell the government what in truth the natural mechanisms are of what it is manipulating. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 247