This economic institution,the economic freedom that from the start it is the role of this institution to guarantee and maintain, produces something even more real, concrete, and immediate than a legal legitimization; it pro...: duces a permanent consensus of all those who. may appear as agents within these economic processes, as investors, workers, employers,and trade unions. All these economic partners produce a consensus, which is a political consensus, inasmuch as they accept this economic game of freedom.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 550