There are various texts I read as a student 30 years ago (how can it be so long?) which I've turned to again recently. I'm planning my next book, which will be about social welfare, more or less, so those classics in philosophy and political economy seemed worth checking out again. Am I remembering correctly what they say, given the passing of the decades? Earlier I posted about Daniel Bell being out of print. The latest book I struggled to get hold of is John Rawls's Theory of Justice, which is out of print in the UK and seems extraordinarily expensive second hand. It's on its way now, but I was surprised to find that it has been reissued in the US (by Belknap Press in 2005), just not on my side of the Atlantic. I suppose works like these are too old for today's students (but what do they read?) and too new to be permanently in print as classics. Anyway, if anybody has suggestions for me on must-read books on justice and social welfare, please let me know.