The invisible hand doctrine functions to disqualify the political sovereign

Evidence

On a more limited scale, it seems to me that the basic function or role of the theory of the invisible hand is to disqualify the political sovereign. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1457

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The economic world must remain opaque even to the sovereign — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1447; Political economy founded itself on the impossibility of an economic sovereign — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1456; Domination and relations of force replace juridical sovereignty as the lens on power — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 4931 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism claims to liberate while actually eroding political sovereignty #exemplifies (0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 211
• Sovereignty theory was retained as ideology to mask disciplinary power #corroborates (0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 545
• Domination and relations of force replace juridical sovereignty as the lens on power #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 4931
• The system’s celebrated freedoms function as instruments of domination #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 45
• Colonial sovereignty operates outside legal and institutional rules of warfare #expands (0.75) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 84
• Formal democratic liberties rest on an unseen foundation of physical coercion #complicates (0.70) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 346