The economic world must remain opaque even to the sovereign

Evidence

Invisibility is not just a fact arising from the imperfect nature of human intelligence which prevents people from realizing that there is a hand behind them which arranges or connects everything that each individual does on their own account. Invisibility is absolutely indispensable._kis an invisibility which means that no ~conomic agent should or can pursue the collective good. … But we must no doubt go further than economic agents; not only no economic agent, but also no political agent. In other words, the world of the economy must be and can only be obscure to the sovereign, and it is so in two ways. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1447

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political economy founded itself on the impossibility of an economic sovereign — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1456; The physiocratic Economic Table gave the sovereign total transparency over the economy — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1462; A long-sighted sovereign would see only chimeras in the economy — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1449 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Political economy founded itself on the impossibility of an economic sovereign #corroborates (1.00) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1456
• A long-sighted sovereign would see only chimeras in the economy #expands (0.95) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1449
• The physiocratic Economic Table gave the sovereign total transparency over the economy #contradicts (0.90) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1462
• The invisible hand doctrine functions to disqualify the political sovereign #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1457