 We see this debate again over the Matthew effect, identified by Merton (1968). As Merton points out, pre-eminent scholars often get more credit for work than a less famous scholar would have gotten. Strevens (2006) argues that this follows the scientific norm to reward credit based on the benefit a discovery yields to science and society. Because famous scientists are more trusted, their discoveries do more good. Strevens claims that this norm of credit thus improves discovery in a community. Heesen (2017), on the other hand, uses a credit economy model to show how someone who gets credit early on due to luck may later accrue more and more credit because of the Matthew effect. When this kind of compounding luck happens, he argues, the resulting stratification of credit in a scientific community does not improve inquiry.