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This books tempts readers with an interesting idea based on Hobbes’ Leviathan. However, it is nothing more than a simplistic promotion of political correctness, identity politics and arguments supporting a continued growing state. The authors do not like Hayek, but anyone tempted to read this book, would do much better reading Hayek and particularly his “The Road to Serfdom”. The authors pretend to support free market economics, however, they don’t like the price mechanism of free markets and suggests it lacks the “political”element of pricing. This alone undermines the whole fabric of the free market and the authors happily ignores this. They happily salute the Swedish model and describes elaborately in much too great detail what happened up to 1976 in Sweden, and they do so with great fanfare. Unfortunately, that was the time when Sweden entered its worst economic recession which sacrificed economic growth and jobs. Is that really a model to emulate? Equally, they celebrate Beveridge’s report produced during the war and implemented after the war, with the eventual unfortunate consequences of economic stagnation resulting from labor unrest and economic stagnation with high inflation, loss of economic competitiveness and devaluations of the £. Why Examples like these are such models for emulation is very hard to understand. The American Constitution equally gets an unfavorable mention. In particular the treatment of the slavery issue is superficial and distorted. Slavery is obviously an incredibly issue in America’s history. It is completely,ex and does not benefit from superficiality. Read Sean Wilentz’ book “No Property in Man” in order to get a far more thorough and thoughtful discussion of slavery during the discussion of the Constitution. The authors completely ignores the need for reforming education and removing the influence of teacher unions in particular in USA. To increase people’s standard of living and improve freedom of choice can only happen with far better education at all educational levels. Unfortunately, this takes time, but the longer society waits the longer and further children will fall behind in the USA. This book is a waste of time and hugely disappointing.