Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Ideal Institutional Theory -- Public Goods: A Case Study -- Rawlsian Replies -- Kavka's Argument -- 2 Is the State Special? -- Behavioral Symmetry -- Behavioral Symmetry in the Liberal Tradition -- Rawls's Argument for Asymmetry -- 3 Political Liberty -- Political Equality -- Redistribution -- Regulation -- 4 Economic Sufficiency -- DistributiveJustice.org -- The Distortionary Costs of Guarantees -- How Much Is Enough? -- Incentives and Information -- Growth and Poverty -- Growth and Redistribution -- The Invisible Hand -- 5 Fair Opportunity -- The Conundrum -- The Egalitarian Objection to the Market -- The Egalitarian's Dilemma -- Luck and Politics -- Political Inequality as an Unfair Inequality -- Political Power as an Instrumental Good -- The Least Bad Option -- 6 Social Equality -- Status and Self-Respect -- What Do Judith Jarvis Thomson and J.J. Watt Have in Common? -- Status Pluralism: A Comparative Institutional Analysis -- How to Economize on Humility -- Conspicuous Compassion -- 7 Libertarian Legitimacy -- What Liberalism Is -- Holding All Else Equal -- RawlsCo and the Rawlsian Republic -- Political Power Under Ideal Libertarianism -- Objections -- The Possibility of Liberal Free Market Capitalism -- 8 Behavioral Symmetry, Again -- Rational Choice Theory -- Competition in Markets and Politics -- Public-Interested Voting -- Conclusion -- Index