>I wrote a couple of papers on this: What's Wrong with Exploitation, Nous
>1995 (arguing that for Marx, it is unfreedom, not injustice), and In
>Defence of Exploitation, Econ & Phil 1995 (Arguing against Roemer, who
>says that it inequality and not exploitation in Marx's sense that is
>interesting). Versions, I think not final versions, of oth papers were
>posted on the net at the time of the old Marxism lists in 1995-96.
Should have read those papers a long time ago. Seem quite important. And the thesis of each paper intuitively plausible to me. Doesn't the concern with injustice and inequality based on Rawlsian or some other ethical theory become inevitable given the focus on distribution of net surplus in the technicist Sraffian model? But Marx is about exploitation and dynamics, and while there have been attempts (I am sure) to dynamise the Sraffian model, it seems to me to be inherently a synchronic one.
Yours, Rakesh