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An absentee may be variously defined (1) as a landed proprietor who resides away from his estate, or (2) from his country; or more generally (3) any unproductive consumer who lives out of the country from which he derives his income.

This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman

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    F. Y. Edgeworth

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin Department of Economics, Madison, USA

    Steven Durlauf

  2. Cornell University , ITHACA, New York, USA

    Lawrence E. Blume

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Edgeworth, F.Y. (1987). Absentee. In: Durlauf, S., Blume, L. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_674-1

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