On Joan Robinson’s Abandonment of Exploitation

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This paper explains the Joan Robinson's abandonment of discussing exploitation in The Accumulation of Capital.


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.

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