Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?

有一批科學(xué)家想要知道有多少種性別的存在。他們?cè)撊绾伍_(kāi)展后續(xù)的研究？

Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?

在哪種意義里，今天的你和 10 歲時(shí)的你是同一個(gè)人？

Q3. Is tax theft?

稅收是一種盜竊行為嗎？

Q1. Do the results of elections express the will of the people? 

選舉的結(jié)果是否表達(dá)了人民的意愿？

Q2. If China becomes the leading superpower, what would that mean for the people who live there? What would it mean for everyone else? 

如果中國(guó)成為有領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力的國(guó)家，這對(duì)生活在那里的人們意味著什么？這對(duì)其他人意味著什么？

Q3. What might account for the different levels of political corruption in your own country and your country's nearest neighbour? 

是什么導(dǎo)致了你自己國(guó)家和你國(guó)家最近的鄰國(guó)的不同程度的政治問(wèn)題？

Q1. A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population. Suppose, instead, it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank? What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages?

政府通過(guò)對(duì)其人口征稅來(lái)為其自身支出提供資金。而如果它完全依賴中央銀行新創(chuàng)造的貨幣會(huì)怎么樣？?jī)?yōu)點(diǎn)和/或缺點(diǎn)是什么？

Q2. In his thought experiment, the Iowa Car Crop, David Friedman tries to show that growing wheat is, in an important sense, just another 'technology' we can use for manufacturing cars, and in some circumstances a much more efficient one.

If international trade is thus a way of using less valuable inputs to produce more valuable outputs, why would governments impose trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas, thereby forcing producers to be more wasteful and less efficient? 

在他的思想實(shí)驗(yàn)“愛(ài)荷華州汽車作物”中，大衛(wèi)·弗里德曼試圖表明，在重要的意義上，種植小麥只是我們可以用來(lái)制造汽車的另一種“技術(shù)”，而且在某些情況下是一種效率更高的技術(shù)。

如果國(guó)際貿(mào)易因此是一種使用價(jià)值較低的投入來(lái)生產(chǎn)價(jià)值較高的產(chǎn)出的方式，那么政府為什么要施加關(guān)稅和配額等貿(mào)易壁壘，從而迫使生產(chǎn)者更加浪費(fèi)和降低效率？

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires? 

如果我們禁止億萬(wàn)富翁，會(huì)發(fā)生什么？

Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism? 

與沒(méi)有英國(guó)殖民主義影響的情況相比，今天的英國(guó)人富?；蜇毟F多少？

Q2. Which has a bigger effect on history: the plans of the powerful or their mistakes? 

哪個(gè)對(duì)歷史的影響更大：權(quán)勢(shì)者的計(jì)劃還是他們的錯(cuò)誤？

Q3. Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones? 

哪些特征將成功的社會(huì)變革運(yùn)動(dòng)與不成功的運(yùn)動(dòng)區(qū)分開(kāi)來(lái)？