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.

The walleye population in Canadarago Lake, New York, was 81-95% exploited in the 1988 fishing season, the year in which a previous restriction on the length and number of legally harvestable fish was liberalized. Using diary records from a subset of fishermen, growth estimates, and an estimate of the walleye population in the following year, a method is developed to reconstruct the fish populat...

Many natural resources can be effectively exploited mainly by using capital-intensive technologies. We develop a bargaining model with endogenous inside and outside options to analyze the interactions between local communities having at least some degree of informal claims over natural resources and external agents, particularly firms interested in commercial resource exploitation. We analyze t...

This paper presents a framework allowing to tune continual exploration in an optimal way. It first quantifies the rate of exploration by defining the degree of exploration of a state as the probability-distribution entropy for choosing an admissible action. Then, the exploration/exploitation tradeoff is stated as a global optimization problem: find the exploration strategy that minimizes the ex...

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 ...