This was the problem, and the answer given by the eighteenth century was ultimately simple and consisted in saying that what will give a place to market freedom and allow its insertion within raison d'Etat and the police state is quite simply that left to itself and governed by laissez-faire the market will be a source of the state's.enrichment, gro~ and theref6repower.The answer of tllt~ eighteenth century was, in sum, that you will move towards more state by less government.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 622