Creative Speculations is an extraordinary book packed with innovative ideas
and suggestions to improve a huge variety of situations. Dipping into the book
at random it’s difficult not to be seduced—how about allowing lottery
winners to buy peerages, building houses from mud blocks, joining a “laughing
club” or using car horns to send coded placatory messages to other drivers?
Published by The Institute for Social Interventions, £14.85, ISBN 0948826436.
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