A Theory of Justice

Rawls, John

Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972

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States "Second printing 1972" (of a book copyright 1971.) Firmly bound, purple cloth board corners toeing in slightly, pages lovely. The green dust jacket is "very-good-minus" with some minor chipping to head & heel of spine. There is NO ISBN TO COPYRIGHT PAGE. The only number of that nature appears to bottom of jacket rear flap and is the nine-digit SBN 674-88010-2, which the ABE computer will not accept as a "valid ISBN." 607 pp. including Index. The author was a professor of Philosophy, Harvard University, and while not a declared socialist, was in fact a leveler, contending it's "unjust" for members of the working class to fare worse overall than those born into the "entrepreneurial" class, since it's the duty and proper role of society to distribute wealth and goods more or less equally. So, we're supposed to believe it was only because they were born into wealthy and privileged "entrepreneurial" families that wealth and influence (unjustly) crowned the labors of bobbin boy-turned telegraph messenger Andrew Carnegie; John D. Rockefeller (son of a bigamist and con man who abandoned his family, a boy who started his business career at 16 as a bookkeeper's assistant at 50 cents a day); seventh-grade dropout turned gas station operator Harland Sanders; impoverished orphan Andrew Jackson; truck driver Elvis Presley, and apprentice meat cutter John Jacob Astor? One of the main reasons such success stories have become less common in America is the tax and regulatory burden imposed on savings and investment by the redistributionist, confiscatory schemes of "economic justice" promoted by the levelers allowed to shelter from the real economic consequences of such tyranny over the aspirations of the human soul at places like (vastly endowed) Harvard University. 607 pp. including Index. Now reduced from $770.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Theory of Justice
• Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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