Now this idea that there must be a rule of non~exclusion and that the function of the social rule, of social regulation, or of social security in the broadest sense ofthe term, is purely and simply to ensure non-exclusion with regard to an econ6mic game that, apart from this rule, must follow its own course, is implemented, or outlined at any rate, in a whole series of more or less clear measures.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 1062