The concept of exploitation is central in social and political theory, but there is no precise, widely accepted … definition. This paper analyses John Roemerʹs seminal theory, which construes exploitation as a distributive injustice arising … Roemerʹs static economies is set up and several doubts are raised on the claim that exploitation theory can be reduced to a …

Exploitation has a deservedly bad reputation as an analytic concept in the social sciences. But this need not be so; a … simple definition of exploitation is advanced that has a positive basis. Exploitation should be defined as the result of rent … monopoly on the legitimate use of force, is ideally charged with balancing two competing kinds of exploitation. The first is …

This paper provides a novel axiomatic analysis of exploitation as the unequal exchange of labour in economies with … heterogeneous optimising agents endowed with unequal amounts of physical and human capital. A definition of exploitation is proposed …, which emphasises the relational nature of exploitation and the resulting inequalities in the allocation of labour and income …

This paper proposes four concepts of exploitation that encapsulate common uses of the word in social interactions … exploitation are related and how they can occur. …

markets, John Roemer’s General Theory of Exploitation and Class challenges the canonical Marxian account of capitalist … exploitation by arguing that unequal distribution of economically scarce productive assets suffices to enable the exploitation of … exploitation requires direct capitalist control of the labor process, but offer no rigorous theoretical or empirical basis for this …