We only move over to the side of the subject himself inasmuch as-and we will come back to this, because it is very important, I am telling you this in a very roughwaY='Ye can approach it throughthe angle, the aspect, the kind of network of intelligibility of his behavior as econonllcbehavior. The subject is considered only as homo reconomicus, which does notmean that the whole subject is considered as homoreconomicus. In other words, considering the subject as homo recondmicus does not imply an anthropological identification of any behavior whatsoever with economic behavior. It simply means that economic behavior is the grid of intelligibility one will adopt on the behavior of a new individual. It also means that the individual becomes governmentalizable,* that power gets a hold on him to the extent, and only to the extent, that he is a homo reconomicus. That is to say, the surface of contact between the individual and the power exercised on him, and so the principle of the regulation of power over the individual, will be only this kind ofgrid ofhomo reconomicus.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 1317