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The Facets of Exploitation

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  • Marc Fleurbaey

    (Economic Theory Center - Princeton University, Le Collège d'études mondiales/FMSH - FMSH - Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme)

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This paper proposes four concepts of exploitation that encapsulate common uses of the word in social interactions: unfair advantage, unequal exchange, using persons as means, free-riding. It briefly discusses how these concepts appear in the literature (the first two are prominent in Roemer's classical work), and then examines how these forms of exploitation are related and how they can occur.

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  • Marc Fleurbaey, 2012. "The Facets of Exploitation," Working Papers halshs-00702100, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-00702100
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    1. Roberto Veneziani & Naoki Yoshihara, 2015. "Exploitation in economies with heterogeneous preferences, skills and assets: An axiomatic approach," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 27(1), pages 8-33, January.
    2. Byasdeb Dasgupta, 2013. "Financialization, Labour Market Flexibility, Global Crisis and New Imperialism - A Marxist Perspective," Working Papers halshs-00840831, HAL.
    3. GIRARDI, Daniele & GRAU, Nicolas & VENEZIANI, Roberto & YOSHIHARA, Naoki, 2025. "Exploitation : Theory and Empirics," Discussion Paper Series 765, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    4. Soh Kaneko & Naoki Yoshihara, 2018. "On the General Impossibility of Persistent Unequal Exchange Free Trade Equilibria in the Pre-industrial World Economy," Working Papers SDES-2018-19, Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management, revised Dec 2018.
    5. Cogliano, Jonathan F. & Kaneko, Soh & Veneziani, Roberto & Yoshihara, Naoki, 2020. "International Exploitation, Capital Export, and Unequal Exchange," Discussion Paper Series 718, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    6. Jonathan F. Cogliano & Roberto Veneziani & Naoki Yoshihara, 2019. "Exploitation, skills, and inequality," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 77(2), pages 208-249, April.
    7. Galanis, Giorgos & Veneziani, Roberto & Yoshihara, Naoki, 2019. "The dynamics of inequalities and unequal exchange of labor in intertemporal linear economies," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 29-46.
    8. Roberto Veneziani & Luca Zamparelli & Naoki Yoshihara, 2017. "A Progress Report On Marxian Economic Theory: On The Controversies In Exploitation Theory Since Okishio (1963)," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(5), pages 1421-1448, December.
    9. Guillaume Allegre, 2021. "Des parasites au paradis ? Revenu universel, minima sociaux et réciprocité," Working Papers hal-03474895, HAL.
    10. Yoshihara, Naoki & Veneziani, Roberto, 2018. "The Theory Of Exploitation As The Unequal Exchange Of Labour," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 34(3), pages 381-409, November.
    11. Meran Georg & Schwarze Reimund, 2025. "Unveiling Ecological Unequal Exchange: The Role of Biophysical Flows as an Indicator of Ecological Exploitation in the North-South Relations," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 19(1), pages 1-19.
    12. Yoshihara, Naoki & Veneziani, Roberto, 2013. "The Measurement of Labour Content: A General Approach," Discussion Paper Series 587, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    13. Jean Cartelier, 2017. "About Waged Labour: From Monetary Subordination to Exploitation," Economic Thought, World Economics Association, vol. 6(2), pages 27-36, September.
    14. Xavier Richet, 2013. "L'internationalisation des firmes chinoises : croissance, motivations, stratégies," Working Papers halshs-00796197, HAL.
    15. Roberto Veneziani, 2013. "Exploitation, inequality and power," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 25(4), pages 526-545, October.
    16. Daniel Abril-López & María del Carmen Morón-Monge & Hortensia Morón-Monge & José María Cuenca-López, 2020. "The Treatment of Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Spanish Curriculum of the Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO): An Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Teaching," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(6), pages 1-27, June.
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    18. Byasdeb Dasgupta, 2013. "Some Aspects of External Dimensions of Indian Economy in the Age of Globalisation," Working Papers halshs-00820294, HAL.
    19. David Ellerman, 2017. "Comment on 'About Waged Labour: From Monetary Subordination to Exploitation'," Economic Thought, World Economics Association, vol. 6(2), pages 37-44, September.

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