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Joe Heath is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of two previous books: Communicative Action and Rational Choice, which won the Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize for 2003, and The Efficient Society, a Maclean’s and Globe and Mail bestseller selected by the Globe as one of the best books of 2001. He writes a monthly column for the journal Policy Options and is a frequent contributor to The Montreal Gazette.

Andrew Potter holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. From 2001-2004 he was professor of philosophy at Trent University, and in 2004-2005 he was a research fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CREUM). He is currently a Public Affairs columnist for Maclean’s magazine, and is the news editor at the Ottawa Citizen. He lives in Ottawa.