On Joan Robinson’s Abandonment of Exploitation

Daniyal Khan ()
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Daniyal Khan: Department of Economics, New School for Social Research

No 1515, Working Papers from New School for Social Research, Department of Economics

Abstract: After discussing and analyzing exploitation as an analytical category in The Economics of Imperfection Competition and An Essay on Marxian Economics, Joan Robinson hardly mentioned it in The Accumulation of Capital. Despite analyzing her contributions at length, the literature has completely failed to recognize this curious turn, let alone explain it. This paper explains the abandonment of exploitation by arguing that it was one way to resolve the tension between the inherently normative aspects of the concept and her increasing discomfort with conflation of ideology and analysis across the first two books mentioned above.

Keywords: Joan Robinson; exploitation; theory of value; ideology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B22 B31 B50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2015-07
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