Fair enough. Thanks for the Gieringer 1985 cite; it’s 25 pages long so I haven’t read it yet, but skimming through it I see a couple of quantitative tables, which is a good sign, and that it was published in the Cato Journal, which is not such a good sign. But it’s something!
I had noticed that you said that. I was originally not going to draw attention to the paper’s source, but it occurred to me that someone might then have asked me whether I was aware of the paper’s source, referring to my earlier claim that I wanted to discourage people from offering me overtly partisan analyses. So I decided to pre-empt that possible confusion/accusation by acknowledging the paper’s origin from a libertarian-leaning journal.
Fair enough. Thanks for the Gieringer 1985 cite; it’s 25 pages long so I haven’t read it yet, but skimming through it I see a couple of quantitative tables, which is a good sign, and that it was published in the Cato Journal, which is not such a good sign. But it’s something!
I said my standards were lower. My point was that your original comment could be taken for having read this and dismissed it.
I had noticed that you said that. I was originally not going to draw attention to the paper’s source, but it occurred to me that someone might then have asked me whether I was aware of the paper’s source, referring to my earlier claim that I wanted to discourage people from offering me overtly partisan analyses. So I decided to pre-empt that possible confusion/accusation by acknowledging the paper’s origin from a libertarian-leaning journal.