Note 199-3 — Chapter VI

Basing himself hereon, Petty, Political Anatomy of Ireland, 82 ff., questions the usual opinion, that Ireland suffered so much from absenteeism. He says that a prohibition of absenteeism carried out to its logical conclusion would require every man to sit on the sod he had tilled himself. Carey, On the Rate of Wages, 1835, 477, calls English capitalists who draw interest from America, absentees.