Definition of Macroeconomics

1. Noun. The branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy.


Definition of Macroeconomics

1. 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. ¹

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Definition of Macroeconomics

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Macroeconomics

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macroeconomics (current term)
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Literary usage of Macroeconomics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Isolation and Aggregation in Economics by Ekkehart Schlicht (1985)
"5.2 The Macroeconomic Method 5.2.1 macroeconomics as an Isolating Approach ... Another way of putting it is to say that macroeconomics presupposes that ..."

2. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"Second, macroeconomics is almost entirely a twentieth century invention, whereas the central ideas of price theory are much older. ..."

3. A Standard Computable General Equilibrium (Cge) Model in Gamsby Hans Lofgren, Rebecca Lee Harris, Sherman Robinson by Hans Lofgren, Rebecca Lee Harris, Sherman Robinson (2002)
"Sherman Robinson is director of the Trade and macroeconomics Division of IFPRI. ... Marcelle Thomas is a research analyst in the Trade and macroeconomics ..."

4. Macroeconomic Policy Reforms and Agriculture: Towards Equitable Growth in by Romeo M. Bautista (2002)
"About the Authors Romeo M. Bautista was a senior research fellow in IFPRI's Trade and macroeconomics Division at the time of writing this report He is ..."

5. Asia and Africa in the Global Economy by Ernest Aryeetey (2003)
"12 Aid and Development: What Can Africa Learn from the macroeconomics of Foreign Aid in Some Southeast Asian Economies? Haider A. Khan' The purpose of this ..."

6. Arms Reduction: Economic Implications in the Post-Cold War Era by Lawrence Robert Klein, Fu-chen Lo, Warwick J. McKibbin (1995)
"Empirical macroeconomics for Open Economies. The Brookings Institution, Washington, ... Evaluating Policy Regimes: New Research in Empirical macroeconomics. ..."

7. The Essence of Stigler by George Joseph Stigler, Kurt R. Leube, Thomas Gale Moore (1986)
"The responsiveness of macroeconomics to contemporary events is notorious. ... If and when macroeconomics produces a good theory of the business cycle, ..."

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