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*A Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year* ''A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear'' Stephen Fry ''The most excellent book … substantive and beautifully expressed suggestions for improving almost everything’ James O''Brien ''Clear, brave, compelling'' David Miliband ''Inspiring ... impassioned ... full of hope'' Zadie Smith ''This is a fantastic book'' Thomas Piketty Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don''t know who you''ll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century''s greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely ambitious and exhilarating intervention, it is by rediscovering Rawls that we can find a way out