C. Lanier Benkard

Stanford GSB economist whose 2000 American Economic Review paper, "Learning and Forgetting: The Dynamics of Aircraft Production," is the vault's sole primary source for a quantified organizational-forgetting depreciation rate — the estimate (δ≈0.96 monthly, ~61% of experience surviving a year on the Lockheed L-1011 program) that turns "learning can reverse" from a plausible mechanism into a specific, checkable number. His paper was read directly in 2026-07-24 verification, upgrading the vault's central claim from a Tier 3 secondary summary to his own words.

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• claim-organizational-forgetting-can-reverse-the-learning-curve · claim-benkard-2000-estimate-implies-far-less-forgetting-than-prior-studies · claim-benkard-2000-headline-depreciation-figure-is-the-spillover-adjusted-specification
• Related hubs: entity-linda-argote · entity-lockheed-l-1011-tristar · entity-organizational-forgetting
• Captures: 2026-07-11-hop-learning-curve-unidentified, 2026-07-24-does-benkard-2000-report-the-organizational-forgetting-depreciation