The physiocratic Economic Table gave the sovereign total transparency over the economy

Evidence

Second, the physiocrats say that the existence of an Economic Table, which enables the circuit of production and the formation of rent to be followed very exactly, gives the sovereign the possibility of exact knowledge of everything taking place within his country, thus giving him the power to control economic processes. That is to say, the Economic Table will offer-the sovereign a principle of analysis and a sort of principle of transparency in relation to the whole of the economic process. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1462

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; Physiocrats justified taxation by making the sovereign co-owner of the land — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1459

Broader Connections

• Political economy founded itself on the impossibility of an economic sovereign #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1456
• Physiocrats justified taxation by making the sovereign co-owner of the land #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1459