Why I have no plans to retire: In defence of moderate professional complacency

Ratio 20 (2):241-246 (2007)
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Abstract

Smilansky argues that realistic assumptions justify the conclusion that far more members of a given service profession than we might previously have supposed would best serve that profession by leaving it. I argue that on more realistic assumptions no such conclusion is forthcoming.

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