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Anatoly Karlin's avatar

There's qualified individuals (both technically and credentials wise) who can and are interested in writing such a book, but who do not have Murray's comfy sinecure where he is mostly free to work on any projects he desires.

It's worth emphasizing that this would be a risky, multi-year undertaking. An advance of $20-50k would not guarantee success, but will make the appearance of such a book much likelier.

(That or credibly promising a larger sum such as $500k for the author(s) who are considered to have accomplished this within say the next 5 years. Considering Ron Unz essentially rewarded Cochran with $600k for his Magnum Opus, or more like $1M inflation adjusted, this doesn't seem like a profligate sum to me).

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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

I thought about doing it. Someone has to follow in Arthur Jensen's footsteps. However, it would require a large amount of effort (no maybe 50% decrease in blogging for a year or two), and given that few people read books, it is hard to justify the effort. When I wrote blogposts, all the right people get them straight in their inboxes, and they gather millions of views/reads. A well done book would gather a few thousand if I am lucky.

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