Shy and retiring?

A retiring fellow

A short while ago I received a letter asking me to step down from membership of a board on which I had been serving for quite some time. Normally I refuse to join boards or committees unless a finite, and preferably short, term of service is fixed in advance. But this particular job was not very onerous, I enjoyed doing it, and worst of all, I thought I was doing some good. So when I read the l...

Medical Retiring Fund

Bengal Medical Retiring Fund

We republish, amongst oar extracts, a letter signed "Fiat Justitia," upon tlie subject of the Medical Ketiring Fund in Bengal. The writer complains of the Fund as a "source of incessant irritation to a great number of subscribers," and blames the Government for inaction in their behoof. He wishes the flame to be fanned and fed, " in order that the fund may be placed upon a better footing." We m...

Retiring Cold Turkey

This paper documents “sharp retirement”—retirement accompanied by a discontinuous decline in labor supply—across three data sets, which previous literature found difficult to explain. I propose and estimate a life-cycle labor supply model with habit persistence wherein sharp retirement can be explained by workers quitting “cold turkey.” In much the same way that one might quit smoking, workers ...

Retiring the central executive.

Reasoning, problem solving, comprehension, learning and retrieval, inhibition, switching, updating, or multitasking are often referred to as higher cognition, thought to require control processes or the use of a central executive. However, the concept of an executive controller begs the question of what is controlling the controller and so on, leading to an infinite hierarchy of executives or "...