This paper analyses the normative and positive foundations of the theory of exploitation as the unequal exchange of … labour (UEL). The key intuitions behind all of the main approaches to UEL exploitation are explicitly analysed as a series of … axiom - called Labour Exploitation - which defines the basic domain of all UEL exploitation forms and identifies the formal …

This paper analyses the Marxian theory of exploitation. A general axiomatic approach is developed which is appropriate … to study the concept of exploitation - what it is and how it should be captured empirically. Two properties are presented … class of definitions of exploitation that preserve the relation between exploitation and profits - called Profit-Exploitation …

exploitation status - is completely characterised. It is shown that this class is nonempty and a definition of UE exploitation … class and UE exploitation structure of the international economy is derived in equilibrium. …

This paper analyses the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and class in general accumulation economies with … emergence and persistence of exploitation and class are investigated, and the role of labour-saving technical change and, even … more importantly, power is highlighted. Second, it is shown that the concept of exploitation provides the foundations for a …

condition of the emergence and persistence of exploitation as unequal exchange of labor. We show that pure workers are exploited … equalized in the limit regardless of the saving behaviors. The so-called Fundamental Marxian Theorem and Profit-Exploitation … Correspondence Principle are generalized in the intertemporal setting with exploitation in the whole life, and the Class-Exploitation …

exploitation theorem (GCET) purports to demonstrate that many other commodities can be substances of value. This note argues that …

rate of exploitation constant? In this paper we demonstrate, in a general circulating capital model, that if (a) the …, then viable technical change can be consistent both with a constant rate of exploitation and a fall in the long run rate of … profit. This result vindicates Marx's claim in Volume III of Capital, that if the rate of exploitation remains unchanged then …

Does the intensification of labour increase the rate of exploitation? Does it produce absolute surplus value or … labour always leads to an increase in the rate of exploitation, and second, that the increase in the rate of exploitation …