Natural law and the Age of Reason -- Human nature and the dignity of the human person -- The classical school of economics and the birth of capitalism -- The romantic and socialist reactions to the Industrial Revolution -- Neoclassicism, the Keynesian revolution, and other sources of dissent --...

Introduction: John Rawls and the crisis of American liberalism -- Justice as fairness -- The second principle of justice -- "Choosing" principles of justice in the original position -- A just constitution -- Economic justice -- Civil disobedience vs. the right of resistance -- "Goodness as...