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

Commodity Exploitation Theorem (GCET), by highlighting a potential asymmetry between labour and other commodities. In this paper …, a novel characterisation of the relation between exploitation and productiveness that is at the heart of the GCET is …

In the standard Okishio-Morishima approach, the existence of profits is proved to be equivalent to the exploitation of … labour. Yet, it can also be proved that the existence of profits is equivalent to the ‘exploitation’ of any good. Labour and … commodity exploitation are just different numerical representations of the productiveness of the economy. This paper presents an …

This article deals with a theoretical point: the alleged consistency of the Marxian notion of exploitation with the …

capitalists strife for the private exploitation of surplus value. It is argued that the capitalist harmful practices, leading to …