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The first words on the inside cover of this book announce that it has been written by one of the world’s leading economists.

We know they used to keep plans for war secret from us. We know just how wrong they were in the past. So what are we not being told today?

Re: Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018: Rapid response by Lu Hiam and Danny Dorling, published in the British Medical Journal, March 23rd 2018

Decent rights, trust, and fairness all require greater economic equality.

For years schools have been sending pupils the message that women are worth less than men. It’s our moral duty to fix that.

Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.

A fall in inequality can begin without policy and political changes, but they help sustain it.

Until recently we had been using the rising profits of undertakers to gauge how unusual recent rises in mortality have been. However, we can no longer do that.

In March 2018 we learnt that, in contrast to all other countries in Europe, both adult and infant mortality are now rising in the UK making an already awful situation worse.

In the eight years since the May 2010 general election, the health of people living in the United Kingdom has faltered.

Life expectancy in the UK has stalled. In many places, and for more vulnerable groups, it is now falling – on-line report in the New Statesman (March 2nd 2018).

The Nationwide Building Society has reported today, March 1st 2018, that prices fell by 0.3% last month, crushing expectations of a rise” Commentators explain: “Brexit and a weaker economic outlook reinforced a slowdown in the property market”.

As Brexit looms closer, various schemes for Britain to “find new markets” will be touted.

Utopia for Realists ends with its author professing admiration for Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.