How could it be wrong to exploit – say, by paying sweatshop wages if the exploited party benefits? do something gratuitously bad like giving a wasteful charity that is better than permissibly doing nothing? Joe Horton argues these puzzles, known as Exploitation Problem and All or Nothing Problem, have no unified answer. I propose one pose challenge for Horton’s take on Problem.

Aage Sørensen, in “Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis,” argues that Marxists are correct in placing exploitation at the center of class analysis since an exploitation-centered concept of class has a much greater potential for explaining the structural foundations of social conflicts over inequality than does its principle rival, the material “life conditions” conception of class. But he ...

Some accounts of exploitation, most notably the degradation-based account provided by Ruth Sample (2003) and Robert Goodin’s (1987) vulnerability-based account, argue that persons are exploited when the benefit they receive from a transaction falls below a certain threshold value. According to these accounts, the duty of the advantaged party to constrain their advantage in light of the other pa...

Human groups contain reproductively relevant resources that differ greatly in their ease of accessibility. The authors advance a conceptual framework for the study of 2 classes of adaptations that have been virtually unexplored: (a) adaptations for exploitation designed to expropriate the resources of others through deception, manipulation, coercion, intimidation, terrorization, and force and (...

We consider a model of exploitation of a size-structured population when the birth, growth and mortality rates depend on the individual size and interspecies competition, while the exploitation intensity is a function of the size only. For a given exploitation intensity and under natural assumptions on the rates, we establish existence and uniqueness of a nontrivial stationary state of the popu...

law department, ferdowsi university of mashhad the importance of the exploitation contracts protecting the literary and artistic rights has, in some legal systems like france, resulted in the devising of general and common regulations about the formation of the above-mentioned contracts. however, so far no independent section has been thought of in the iranian legal system for explicating commo...