0 Contents : Governmental rationality : an introduction / Colin Gordon. - Politics and the study of discourse ; Questions of method ; Governmentality / Michel Foucault. - Theatrum politicum : the genealogy of capital : police and the state of prosperity / Pasquale Pasquino. -Peculiar interests : civil society and governing 'the system of natural liberty' / Graham Burchell. - Social economy and the government of poverty / Giovanna Procacci. -The mobilization of society / Jacques Donzelot. - How should we do the history of statistics? / Ian Hacking. -Insurance and risk / Fran�ois Ewald. - 'Popular life' and insurance technology / Daniel Defert. - Criminology : the birth of a special knowledge / Pasquale Pasquino.