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Double the ethanol market and raise the price of corn 40 cents a bushel by banning MTBE, the oil-based gasoline additive.
But even Alfred Marshall--the Victorian economist who invented supply and demand as we know it--was well aware that while diminishing returns are a good assumption for agriculture (The more wheat you try to grow, the worse the land on which the marginal bushel is grown), elsewhere in the economy it is quite possible to have increasing returns, in which the more you produce, the easier it gets.
The first shows late 16 th century fashion looking ridiculous only on the aging queen herself, as if no other woman at the time ever wore a rigid farthingale and stuffed sleeves, a tightly frizzed wig and a bushel of pearls, or painted her face with white paste.
Front-runners rack up endorsements by the bushel because endorsements are mostly about who is likely to win--and thus be in a position to pay his endorsers back.