On Exploitation: Hillel Steiner and Nicholas Vrousalis

On Exploitation

Thursday 20 February; 6.30-8pm

Hong Kong Theatre; Clement House; LSE

Hillel Steiner; Professor of Political

Philosophy; University of Manchester

Nicholas Vrousalis; Assistant Professor in

Political Philosophy; Leiden University

Chair: Gabriel Wollner; Assistant Professor;

Department of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method;

LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow

Child labour; sweatshops and low wages: There are

many market exchanges that strike us as morally

problematic because they are exploitative. But what

exactly is exploitation? And how could a voluntary

and mutually beneficial exchange be morally wrong?

Hillel Steiner and Nicholas Vrousalis will discuss

the relevance of exploitation as a concept for

analysing and criticising the exchanges; relations and

institutions of contemporary market economies.