www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/stoc11-credit.pdf<p>This is an interesting paper in the upcoming STOC which analyzes a stylized model of allocating credit for solving scientific problems. The main conclusion is that allocating more (or less) credit to some achievements and some people, while unfair, might improve utility for society as a whole by making people go towards less interesting/ harder problems.<p>Is similar kind of behavior observed in the startup or coder community ?