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The term ‘waiting’ was introduced by MacVane (1887) to replace the term ‘abstinence’ used by earlier economists. Both terms are so closely related that they will be discussed together.

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Hennings, K.H. (2018). Waiting. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1380

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