Michael J. Sandel

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that …

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice is a book by Michael Sandel, first published in 1982, with a second edition in 1998.