Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Conceptions of Property in the Original Position -- Why Not Capitalism? -- Rawls's Non-Response to This Argument -- A Rawlsian Explanation -- 2 Property-Owning Democracy versus Liberal Socialism -- What Rawls Meant by ''Liberal Democratic Socialism'' -- The ''Means of Production'' -- Historical Digression -- The ''Commanding Heights'' of the Economy -- Rawls's Understanding of ''Property-Owning Democracy'' -- Property-Owning Democracy as an Alternative to Capitalism -- The Political History of the Term ''Property-Owning Democracy'' -- Ambiguous Indications -- Summing Up -- 3 Fair Value and the Fact of Domination -- 4 The Four-Stage Sequence -- The Constitutional-Stage: Knowledge and Task -- The Constitutional Stage: The Rule of Decision -- The Constitutional Stage: Fair Value -- The Constitutional Stage: ''Wide'' versus ''Narrow'' Distributive Justice -- The Five Ideal Regime Types -- The Third, Legislative Stage -- The Fourth, and Final, Administrative/Judicial Stage -- 5 The Circumstances of Politics -- Anxiety in the Circumstances of Justice -- The Limited Space of the Political -- 6 Rescuing the Difference Principle -- Relative Stability: The Two Fundamental Comparisons -- First Fundamental Comparison: ''Stressing the Second Condition'' -- The Reconciliation Requirement -- The Publicity Condition -- The Express Reciprocity Criterion -- Second Fundamental Comparison: Publicity, Reciprocity, Stability -- Grounds of Publicity -- Grounds of Reciprocity -- Grounds of Stability -- Counting Up the Grounds -- Reciprocity and Strains of Commitment -- Reflection on the Part One Argument for Justice as Fairness -- 7 The Special Psychologies -- Varieties of Envy -- Envy and Inequality