macroeconomics

From macro- (“large scale”) +‎ economics. The first published use of the term was by the Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch (1895–1973) in 1933.[1]

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• Hyphenation: mac‧ro‧ec‧o‧nom‧ics

macroeconomics (uncountable)

1. 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.

   Antonym: microeconomics

• econometrics, also coined (in current sense) by Frisch