Benjamin F. Jones

Economist (Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management) whose burden-of-knowledge model — rising accumulated knowledge forces narrower specialization or larger collaborative teams — supplies the mechanism connecting the vault's population-scaling cluster to its credit-compression cluster: bigger real teams are exactly the raw material name-magnetism later compresses onto one credited name. Not to be confused with Charles I. Jones (Stanford), co-author of the vault's separate "ideas are getting harder to find" note — a genuine surname collision confirmed by checking both faculty pages directly.

References

• claim-jones-2005-burden-of-knowledge-forces-specialization-and-teamwork
• claim-wuchty-jones-uzzi-2007-team-size-in-science-grew-1955-2000
• observation-burden-of-knowledge-bridges-population-scaling-and-credit-compression