Fresh ideas

This article examines the claim that what we need isn't good ideas, it's a political process that supports them (made by Barack Obama). The columnist argues that we need both, particularly regarding climate change.

"As it happens, a publication called Democracy: A Journal of Ideas has a neat climate proposal in its next issue. Instead of charging drivers for car insurance at a fixed rate, why not link the insurance cost to the number of miles driven? That would create a new incentive to drive less, cutting carbon dioxide emissions by around 130 million tons per year, according to author Jason Bordoff. Obama should be celebrating this sort of creative thought, not pretending that we have enough of it already."