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I came across the following article recently, and thought I would post 
notice of it here, since it will not appear in any of the usual indices 
that historians of economics use. The article is a Foucaultian genealogy 
of political economy at the end of the eighteenth century. 
 
Meuret, Denis. 1993. A political genealogy of political economy. In 
_Foucault's New Domains_, ed. Mike Gane and Terry Johnson, 49-74. 
London: Routledge. 
 
The essay begins: 
 
"To do the genealogy, rather than the history, of political economy 
involves attempting to understand how, at a given moment, it succeeded in 
organising the production of truth, rather than recounting its progress 
towards scientific rigour or the way in which it followed the development 
of the economy itself. 
To what Michel Foucault called a *savoir* and what Paul Veyne calls a 
'programme of truth', genealogy does not pose the question of the 
truthfulness of what it says. By rediscovering how, against what other 
discourses, it succeeded in imposing itself, it addresses the question of 
the pertinence of the truth it constructs." 
 
Ross 
 
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