HES: Re: QUERY--Origin of the word "macroeconomics"
Barkley Rosser
rosserjb at jmu.edu
Mon Apr 30 18:23:25 EDT 2007
Nicholas J. Theocarakis wrote:
> The standard reference for the origin of the term is an essay by Ragnar
> Frisch
> in a Festschrift for Gustav Cassel in 1933.
Nicholas,
Regarding the Frisch 1933 article, are you sure that he did not use the
"macrodynamics"
that he used at the 1933 Econometric Society meetings instead of
"macroeconomics"?
Presumably Samuelson checked out Frisch as the source, as he originally
thought it was him.
Barkley Rosser
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