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This rational individual is the Archimedean point of the social ontology of economics; a kind of sui generis substance which accounts for everything else. Assuming this transhistorical economic rationality, the need to explain the existence of capitalism conveniently disappears: the capitalist economy appears simply as what happens if human nature is allowed to unfold without impediments. This is why, as Wood notes, in ‘most accounts of capitalism and its origin, there really is no origin’.

Mute Compulsion

Søren Mau

What politicians seek to avoid are any institutional changes that increase the number of people to whom they are beholden.

The Dictator's Handbook

de Mesquita Bueno

the currently popular discourses of ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’, and ‘democratisation’ … as strategies of governance rest on tutoring people to build their capacities and become self-dependent, responsible citizens who can take care of their own welfare and govern themselves. This provides yet another example of __neo-liberal ‘unloading’ of public services onto empowered and ‘responsibilised’ selves and communities who … are thereby made complicit in the contemporary workings of power and governance.__ (Sharma and Gupta, 2006: 21).

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

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