Q1. Is safety more important than fun?

安全比乐趣更重要吗？

Q2. If you had $10 billion to spend on making the world better, how would you spend it?

如果你有100亿美元用于改善世界，你会怎么花？

Q3. What, if anything, do your parents owe you?

如果存在什么东西，是你父母欠你的？

Q4. What is something important, about which nearly everybody is wrong?

什么是重要的，但几乎每个人都错了？

Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?

为什么约翰·洛克有时被称为自由主义之父？

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

有一批科学家想知道世界上有多少种性别存在。他们应该如何进行研究？

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

从哪种意义上说，今天的你和十岁时的你是同一个人?

Q3. Is tax theft?

税收是一种盗窃行为吗？

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

选举的结果是否表达了人民的意愿？

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

如果中国成为主要的超级大国，这对生活在那里的人们意味着什么?这对其他人意味着什么?

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

是什么原因可能导致您的国家和邻国在政治腐败程度上的不同？

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?

政府通过向国民征税来为其自身支出提供资金。假设，政府所有开支完全依赖于央行新发行的货币? 这样做的优势和/或劣势是什么?

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?

David Friedman在他的思想实验“the Iowa Car Crop”中试图证明，从一种很重要的意义上讲，种植小麦只是我们用来制造汽车的另一种“技术”，在某些情况下，这种技术会高效很多。

如果国际贸易是一种使用价值更低的投入来生产更有价值的产出方式，那么政府为什么要设置关税和配额等贸易壁垒，从而迫使生产者造成浪费，降低效率呢?

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?

如果我们取缔亿万富翁，会发生什么?

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

如果没有英国殖民主义的影响，如今的英国人将会更富有或贫穷多少？

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

哪一个对历史影响更大：权势者制定的计划还是他们犯的错误？

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

成功的社会变革运动与失败的社会变革运动相比特征有何不同?