PETER VALLENTYNE is Professor of Philosophy at the Virginia Commonwealth University. He has written on a variety of issues in consequentialist moral theory, and edited Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on the Work of David Gauthier (1991). He is currently developing a version of left-libertarianism (combining self-ownership with egalitarianism). - HILLEL STEINER is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has published papers on liberty, rights and moral reasoning, and is the author of An Essay on Rights (1994) and (with Matthew Kramer and Nigel Simmonds) A Debate Over Rights: Philosophical Enquiries (1998).

• Preface Introduction: Left-Libertarianism; P.Vallentyne PART I: CONTEMPORARY STATEMENTS ON LEFT-LIBERTARIANISM Natural Property Tights; A.Gibbard Redistribution Without Egalitarianism; B.Brody Autonomous Ownership; J.Grunebaum Original Rights and Just Redistribution; H.Steiner Real-libertarianism; P.V.Parijs Self-Ownership and Equality, A Lockean Reconciliation; M.Otsuka PART II: CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSION OF OWNERSHIP OF SELF, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND ARTEFACTS Distributive Justice; R.Nozick Entrepreneurship, Entitlement, and Economic Justice; I.Kirzner Property and Exchange; M.Rothbard Natural Property Rights as Body Rights; S.Wheeler Self-Ownership, World-Ownership, and Equality; G.A.Cohen Self-Ownership, World Ownership, and Equality, Part II; G.A.Cohen Parents and Children; R.Nozick Property Rights and the Self-Ownership Argument; W.Kymlicka Lockean Self-Ownership: Towards a Demolition; R.Arneson Self-Ownership, Equality, and the Structure of Property Rights; J.Christman Neo-Lockeanism and Self-Ownership; J.Roemer Index