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我们都经历过被孩子问得张口结舌的情况,还没被教育污染的孩子看问题简单直接,爱问为什么,喜好公平——这也恰是经济学的核心。成人在解释的时候,所有的辩论技巧和技术优势都派不上用场,只能踏踏实实地讲最基本的道理。当史蒂文·兰兹伯格的女儿凯莱在电视上看到当时的美国总统比尔·克林顿宣布要增加所得税时,立刻大哭起来。孩子想到的可能是他父亲的收入减少了,而常带着女儿上游乐场的父亲意识到,凯莱用更简单的方式告诉过他为什么这是不公平的:在游乐场上,
We have all been exasperated by our children. Children who are not yet polluted by education see problems as simple as they are, and they like fairness, which is just the heart of economics. When the adult interprets, all the debating techniques and technological advantages are not useful, and only the most basic truth can be understood in a down-to-earth manner. When Steven Landsberger’s daughter, Gloria Clay, saw on television that the then U.S. President Bill Clinton announced an increase in income tax, he immediately cried. The child may have come to mind that his father’s income was diminished, and his father, often with his daughter’s playground, realized that Gloria had told him in a simpler way why it was not fair: at the playground,