Biopolitics
> The growing risks of poverty and social exclusion are not necessarily inherent and
> inevitable features of our society. They spring from two ‘malfunctioning’ institutions:
> the labour market and the family. … Behind these lines of analysis lurks my key
> hypothesis, namely that the household economy is _alpha and omega_ to an resolution
> of the main postindustrial dilemmas, perhaps the single most important ’social
> foundation’ of postindustrial economies.
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— Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies
The interesting thing about reading political economy is that the positive categories used by social scientists are eerily similar to the critical concepts used by theorists. The ruling class are nothing if not honest, after all.
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