Foucault saw economics as a discipline that forbids any sovereign viewpoint

Evidence

“Economics is an atheistic discipline; economics is a discipline without God; economics is a discipline without totality; economics is a discipline that begins to demonstrate the pointlessness, but also the impossibility of a sovereign point of view” (Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, p. 282). — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1943

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pithy statement of Foucault’s claim that economics structurally resists sovereignty, which the surrounding argument engages.
• XREF: connects to: Political economy founded itself on the impossibility of an economic sovereign — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1456

Broader Connections

• Political economy founded itself on the impossibility of an economic sovereign #corroborates (0.95) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1456