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>If I'm remembering right James Miller says that in his final days MF
>flirted with Austrian economics, and gave a sympathetic lecture on
>Hayek. Does anyone know more about this?
I don't know anything about an outright conversion to/sympathy with those things, but in the mid-70s he was very interested in the philosophy of the economic thought of the Chicago School, the Austrians, and, especially, the Ordoliberals. Thomas Lemke goes into some of this in his article on Foucault's "birth of biopolitics" lecture, here (check out the url!) <http://www.worldbank.org/research/inequality/pdf/lenke.pdf#search=%22economy%20and%20society%20lemke%20foucault%22>. There's a bit more in-depth discussion of his relation to the Austrians in this strange article <http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/fguala/Foucault_review.pdf#search=%22foucault%20hayek%20austrian%20economics%22>.