macroeconomics love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The study of the overall aspects and workings of a national economy, such as income, output, and the interrelationship among diverse economic sectors.

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  • noun The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.

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  • noun the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy

Etymologies

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macro- (large scale-) +‎ economics. The first published use of the term was by the Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch in 1933.

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