Erik Brynjolfsson

Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and the vault's most-cited economist — a disambiguation page, because five different works appear here under one surname: the Brynjolfsson-Rock-Syverson productivity paradox that anchors the complements thesis (well corroborated), the 2018 SML rubric that is one of seven exposure instruments which disagree (largely superseded), the 2025 'Canaries in the coal mine' 22-25-year-old -16% result the vault's firm-level panel contradicts, a 2025 workplace-writing homogenization finding a randomized essay experiment did not reproduce, and the July 2026 'We Must Act Now' open letter he organized