Non-intervention is necessary on condition, of course, that an institutional framework is established to prevent either individuals or public authorities intervening to create a monopoly. And thus you findin enormous anti-monopolistic institutional framework in German legislation, the function of which is not at all to intervene in the economic field to prevent the economy itselffrom producing the monopoly, but whose function is to prevent external processes from intervening and creating monopolistic phenomena.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 761