I'm in the process of preparing for the first Policy Foresight Programme for 2007, a seminar on perverse subsidies and institutional roadblocks to reform.  A main topic of the seminar will be how to change a system of governance that is based on concepts from the industrial revolution (greater efficency and accounting for only those things that can be measured) to a system that incorporates things that are valued, but not quantifably so (like protecting the environment).  As ever, Calvin & Hobbes have something to say on the matter: