The main intention of this essay is to survey the recent literature on the retirement decision. It seemed that a study of retirement would be misleading unless it were coupled with the entire path leading to this decision. Pursuit of this more ambitious goal was made feasible by several recent...

In this paper we trace the evolution of economic search theory and the concomitant accumulation of insights so as to elucidate is successes as well as its central location within the economics of information. The reason for the phenomenal success of search theory is twofold. First, Stigler’s...