Sherlock Holmes stories are full of surprising questions, begging for answers. (Why did an old lady get a box with two ears in it in the mail? Who would pay a man to sit and write out words from the dictionary just because he had red hair, and why?) The stories are great at presenting you with a problem and getting you to want to know the answer.
Almost every story has, fairly early on, an engaging, thorny question. It defies you to explain it.
It draws you in… and there is little difference with the world of government and economics: How much freedom ought a citizen have? What is the higher law that man must appeal to? Can the free market come at too high of a cost? These are just a few of the questions nipping at the heels of history and simultaneously existing as our present day mystery. Welcome to: "Government and Economics, the heartbeat of a nations pocketbook."
