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Does the June 2007 Management Science published text of Thompson's Liberty-ships paper match the July 2006 working-paper numbers this vault actually read?

capture promoted 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Does Peter Thompson's 2007 Liberty-ships paper establish a genuinely contested organizational-forgetting rate on its own evidence?

capture promoted 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Thompson (2007) attributes most of the Liberty-ship literature's inflated forgetting estimate to a named aggregation bias in Fischer's (1949) standard shipyard dataset

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Thompson (2007) shows, in his own six model specifications and his own concluding caveat, that the Liberty-ship forgetting rate is highly specification-sensitive — not a single number

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Thompson (2007) measures his Liberty-ship re-estimate (3.6–5.7%) directly against Argote, Beckman & Epple's (1990) 25%-per-month figure for the same case

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson