Alan Thomas's groundbreaking new book sets itself three main tasks. First, to effect a marriage of sorts between liberal and republican political philosophy. Second, to show that this union bears important progeny, in the form of a theory of property-owning democracy (POD). Third, to show that...

This paper reviews the recent literature on exploitation. It distinguishes between three main species of exploitation theory: (1) teleology-based, including harm and mutual benefit accounts, (2) respect-based, including mere means, force, rights, and fairness accounts, and (3) freedom-based,...

This paper argues that capitalist social relations do not presuppose wage-labour. It defends a functional definition of the capitalist relations of production, in terms of what Marx calls the ‘subsumption of labour by capital'. I argue that there are at least four modes of subsumption, one...

This paper argues that recognition is, fundamentally, a relationship between a person and a reason. The recognizer acts for a reason, in the interpersonal case, only when she takes the recognizee's rational intentions—intentions whose content is favoured by reasons—as reasons. Free agency,...

This paper argues that exploitation is a form of domination, domination for self-enrichment. In a slogan, exploitation is a dividend of servitude – a benefit the powerful extract by converting the vulnerable into their servants. The paper argues that what makes exploitation wrong is that it...