You recall that in'this conception-ofEucken, Ropke;Miiller-Annad~ and others~themarket was defined as a principle ofeconomic regulation indispensable to the formation of prices and so to the consistent development of the economic process. What was thegovemment's task in relation to this principle of the market as the indispensable regulating function of the economy? It was to organize a society, to establish what they call a Gesellschaftspolitik such that these fragile competitive mechanisms of the market can function to the full and in accordance with their specific structure.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 1258