I would recommend this book to anyone interested in exploitation as a moral concept, as well as to those who have abandoned the concept of exploitation as fundmentally confused or unhelpful. After reading this book, the latter group may need to change their minds.
Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario This book should be read by scholars and students ... Read moreof ethics and political philosophy, but also by policy makers, CEOs, marriage counselors, and anyone positioned to alter the terms of social cooperation—on a large or small scale.
Laurie Shrage, California State Polytechnic University Written in a clear and concise style, will appeal primarily to ethicists and perhaps other faculty. Sample's hypothetical examples are interesting and, to this reviewer's intuition, her conclusions are right. Recommended.
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Sample's book is on the whole a fine contribution to an important debate in its systematic and open-minded treatment of its subject. It is capable of forcing anyone who reads it to rethink his established notions about what exploitation involves and what makes it wrong.
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Sample presents a powerful and original account of exploitation that distinguishes exploitation from other moral faults and explains precisely why it is morally objectionable.
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