William A. Edmundson is Regents Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgia State University College of Law. He is the author of Three Anarchical Fallacies (Cambridge, 1998) and An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge, 2012), and editor of The Duty to Obey the Law (1999) and The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (2004). He is also the series editor of the Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Conceptions of property in the original position; 2. Property-owning democracy versus liberal socialism; 3. Fair value and the fact of domination; 4. The four-stage sequence; 5. The circumstances of politics; 6. Rescuing the difference principle; 7. The special psychologies; 8. Socialism and stability; 9. The common content; 10. The property question; 11. Religion and reticence; 12. Non-ideal theory: the transition to socialism; Bibliography; Index.

'Edmundson has written an admirably concise yet powerful book.' Nick Cowen, The Review of Politics