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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper surveys and extends some recent contributions on the theory of exploitation as the unequal exchange of … the literature as special cases. It is shown that the notion of exploitation is logically coherent and can be meaningfully … explore the normative foundations of the notion of exploitation. Finally, it is argued that purely distributive approaches to …