The ordoliberal art of government seeks an enterprise society, not a supermarket one.
Evidence
What is sought is not a society subject to the commodity effect but … to the dynamic of competition. Not a super-market society but an enterprise society. The homo oeconomicus sought after is not the man of exchange or man the consumer; he is the man of enterprise and production…. The art of government programmed by the ordoliberals around the 1930s, and which has now become the program of most governments in capitalist countries involves … obtaining a society that is … oriented toward the multiplicity and differentiation of enterprises. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 119
Categorization
- DEFINE: Foucault’s definition of the enterprise society as the goal of ordoliberal government.
- XREF: connects to: Ordoliberal enterprise society is simultaneously for and against the market — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1268; Neoliberalism endorses wide state action to construct markets, not laissez-faire. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 431; Neoliberalism makes the enterprise the formative power of society, not merely an economic policy. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 120
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism makes the enterprise the formative power of society, not merely an economic policy.
#expands(0.95) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 120 - Ordoliberal enterprise society is simultaneously for and against the market
#expands(0.90) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1268 - Neoliberalism endorses wide state action to construct markets, not laissez-faire.
#corroborates(0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 431