Robert Meister is professor of social and political thought in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz, where he directs the Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism. He is the author of Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx and After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights.
This book is an amazing piece of theory and critique--highly original, comprehensively knowledgeable, and politically powerful. Meister's latest work is exciting, to say the least, and it promises to lead to important breakthroughs in the current discussion about alternatives to capitalism. -- Etienne Balibar, Columbia University In Justice Is an Option, Meister engages in a brilliant analysis of contemporary financial markets and devices, and provides a further development of his theory of 'historical justice.' The result is an impressive and compelling book that makes a powerful contribution both to political theory and to the critical analysis of contemporary capitalism. It will unquestionably be of interest to scholars of finance and political theory, and it is sure to spur lively debates within activist circles and beyond the academic world. -- Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna