Exploitation As Domination - What Makes Capitalism Unjust

Nicholas Vrousalis argues that exploitation is a form of domination, namely enrichment through the domination of others. This form of domination, being reducible to neither unfairness nor to defective consent, structurally pervades capitalist relations between consenting adults, as well as oppressive gender and race relations.

List of contents

• Table of Contents


• List of Figures and Tables


• Introduction


• Background


• 1: Theories of Exploitation


• Theory


• 2: Domination at Work


• 3: How Exploiters Dominate


• 4: Structural Domination in the Market


• Applications


• 5: Capitalist Exploitation: Its Forms, Origin, and Fate


• 6: Exploitation and International Relations


• Alternatives


• 7: The Emancipated Economy


• References

About the author

Nicholas Vrousalis is an Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He read economics and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and obtained his doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Oxford. In 2015 Vrousalis published his first book, The Political Philosophy of G. A. Cohen, with Bloomsbury. His research interests include distributive ethics, democratic theory, and the history of political thought, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, and Marx.

Summary

Nicholas Vrousalis argues that exploitation is a form of domination, namely enrichment through the domination of others. This form of domination, being reducible to neither unfairness nor to defective consent, structurally pervades capitalist relations between consenting adults, as well as oppressive gender and race relations.

Additional text

Nicholas Vrousalis's central claims about exploitation in Exploitation as Domination are clear and intuitively compelling: exploitation is self-enrichment through the domination of others, and it is inherent to capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Vrousalis, Nicholas (Associate Professor in Practi Vrousalis, Vrousalis Nicholas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780192867698
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286769-8
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: New Topics in Applied Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Social & political philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy, social and political philosophy, Welfare economics, Economic theory and philosophy