Mr Lloyd says the government "has a job on its hands to convince people that everything possible is being done to keep unavoidablecosts like energy and food bills under control".
Even in an age of growing mass customization, producing a device, and in particular a device that needs to look designed, with no rough edges, has unavoidable startup and machining costs.
The authors said some of the costs of schizophrenia were unavoidable, but effective interventions, such as family therapy and making a concerted effort to find people jobs, were not being widely used.