Gil writes that he's glad I accept Palgrave as an authority.
I'm afraid I repudiate authority as a source of truth, whether Marx, Palgrave,
or Birkhoff/MacLane. I cited Benassy to break through the wall of
pseudo-authority that surrounds these discussions by showing that the concept
of equilibrium I advanced was held by at least *one* other person, so that
no-one could dismiss it as a fantasy of Freeman's.
Seems to have worked. That said, let's stop discussing sources of authority
and discuss the logical structure of the argument.
For that matter I cited Birkhoff and MacLane to break through the wall of
pseudo-authority that surrounds the use of mathematics. So far, that doesn't
seem to have worked. So I'll make it the subject of a separate post.
Alan