Liberalism and Distributive Justice

Samuel Freeman is a leading political philosopher and one of the foremost authorities on the works of John Rawls. Liberalism and Distributive Justice offers a series of Freeman’s essays in contemporary political philosophy on three different forms of liberalism--classical liberalism,
libertarianism, and the high liberal tradition--and their relation to capitalism, the welfare state, and economic 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.