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This chapter presents how financial literacy as an alienating technology of power and the self works with its other technological aspects (production and sign systems) to discipline and empower the working class subject to become the entrepreneurial consumer.
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Arthur, C. (2012). Financial Literacy, Discipline, Biopower and Governmentality. In: Arthur, C. (eds) Financial Literacy Education. Educational Futures Rethinking Theory and Practice, vol 53. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-918-3_6
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