I will suggest that with the ascendency of neoliberalism, interest has ceased to anchor or characterize homo oeconomicus and also that Foucault ignores homo politicus in modern thought and practice. Homo politicus, I will argue in the next chapter, is not captured by the subject of right or by homo legalis. Yet it has persisted through most of modernity and has only recently been displaced by the specifically neoliberal formulation of homo oeconomicus as human capital, a creature for whom interest is no longer the proper designation.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 155