Your examples contrasting the various relationships--Mars, Minnesota, Manitoba, and New Mexico--are very helpful to me in digging deeper into Olsaretti's work:
"But Olsaretti seems to think that if your network is New Mexico, inside the same national boundaries as Minnesota, then, mysteriously, asking to justify the difference in holdings between members of two seperate cooperative networks is not like..."
Previously I was familiar with this 2-part review: