The Blog of Diminishing Returns

Are you ready to vote!?!! You can early vote until November 3rd or on November 8th. Since as the old saying goes, all politics is local, ...

Guest Post with Marie Mapes (my wife) Maryland voters will have their chance to vote in the primary elections April 14th-21st (early votin...

There is growing call to pay college athletes   including among sports economists after all a star player can add millions of dollars to a s...

I'm very excited to see that the US has ended a half century of an embargo and economic sanctions against Cuba ! I will be taking stude...

A public good is a good which is non-rival and non-excludable or in other words my use of it does not take way from your use (rival) and I c...

Giving money to directly to the poor has become such a widely popular policy tool it is harder to find a country that is not doing it than o...

Sitting in the new La Madeleine in Silver Spring and have to say I’m a little bit disappointed and feeling ennui on a rainy day. My local ...