Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word macroeconomics.
Examples
-
Economists are very smart people, but there are still a lot of questions in macroeconomics that remain unanswered.
Jodi Beggs: What Is Quantitative Easing and Why Should We Care? Jodi Beggs 2010
-
Economists are very smart people, but there are still a lot of questions in macroeconomics that remain unanswered.
Jodi Beggs: What Is Quantitative Easing and Why Should We Care? Jodi Beggs 2010
-
So now the entire field of macroeconomics is irrational?
Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010
-
Economists are very smart people, but there are still a lot of questions in macroeconomics that remain unanswered.
Jodi Beggs: What Is Quantitative Easing and Why Should We Care? Jodi Beggs 2010
-
January 11th, 2009 at 8: 38 am macroeconomics is junk jps Says:
-
So now the entire field of macroeconomics is irrational?
Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010
-
We need a strong leader well experienced in macroeconomics, military tactics and foreign affairs to pull us out of what is boiling down to be 12 years of combined disastrous leadership (sic).
-
However, this course based on macroeconomics, is designed …
-
Stephen, in macroeconomics Christina Romer (now with the Obama Administration) has done some very good empirical work in trying to find “natural experiments” where there was a sudden unexpected policy change and then teasing out the statistical impact.
-
In the late 1980's, the controversies in macroeconomics more or less ended in a stalemate, because each side had learned how to make its model fit the data.
Robert Solow on Model-Building, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.