Liberalism and Distributive Justice

Samuel Freeman is the Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of Justice and the Social Contract (OUP, 2006) and of Rawls. He edited the Cambridge Companion to Rawls, as well as John Rawls's Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy and his Collected Papers.

This is an excellent book that advances our understanding of the liberal project in general and the Rawlsian liberal project in particular. It will be of great benefit to anyone interested in liberalism, justice, and the political philosophy of John Rawls.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction Part I: Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Economic Justice1. Capitalism in the Classical and High Liberal Traditions2. Illiberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is not a Liberal View Part II: Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle3. Rawls on Distributive Justice and the Difference Principle4. Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference Principle5. Private Law and Rawls's Principles of Justice Part III: Liberal Institutions and Distributive Justice6. The Social and Institutional Bases of Distributive Justice7. The Basic Structure of Society as The Primary Subject of Justice8. Ideal Theory and the Justice of Institutions 9. Constructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification ReferencesIndex