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ˌmicro-ecoˈnomics, n. pl. (usu. const. as sing.).
Also microeconomics.
[f. micro- 2 a + economic n. 2 c.]
That branch of the science of economics which deals with the individual (firm, product, consumer, etc.) rather than the aggregate.
1948K. E. Boulding Economic Analysis (rev. ed.) xiii. 259 There are two main branches of modern economic analysis, to which the names ‘microeconomics’ and ‘macroeconomics’ may conveniently be given. Microeconomics is the study of particular firms, particular households, individual prices, wages, incomes; individual industries, particular commodities. 1949L. H. Haney Hist. Econ. Thought (ed. 4) xxxvii. 734 The preceding chapters have mostly dealt with ‘micro-economics’—economics concerned with the determination of particular prices or values. Now comes a chapter which deals with ‘macro-economics’, or national aggregates in the shape of total national income as affected by total spending or not-spending. 1960A. Cairncross Introd. Econ. (ed. 3) ii. 23 When he is talking about the decisions made in an individual business the economist is in the realm of micro-economics. 1965McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 324 Micro-economics deals with the division of total output among industries, products, and firms and the allocation of resources among competing uses. 1968Economist 11 May 66/2 If the Government can provide the micro-economics that industry wants, then industry will willingly cooperate to help to provide the macro-economics that the Government needs. 1974Sci. Amer. Jan. 27/2 A social decision, one not based entirely on microeconomics must be made on the value of the land to the society as a whole,
So ˌmicro-ecoˈnomic a., ˌmicro-eˈconomist.
1949L. H. Haney Hist. Econ. Thought (ed. 4) xxxiv. 692 The ‘over’ theories are mostly micro-economic. The ‘under’ theories all tend toward macro-economics, and are concerned with totals and averages, not margins. 1958Henderson & Quandt Microecon. Theory i. 3 Micro-economic theories are sufficiently flexible to permit many variations in their underlying assumptions. 1965H. I. Ansoff Corporate Strategy (1968) i. 16 The so-called microeconomic theory of the firm..sheds..little light on decision-making processes in a real-world firm. 1968Economist 13 Jan. 46/1 Mr. Merton Peck..is mainly a ‘micro-economist’, interested in marketing questions and industrial problems. 1973Spectator 3 Mar. 281/1 The most distinguished body of micro-economic thinkers, gathered together in one place, in the world. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Apr. 398/1 Those conventional micro-economists who presume that their rather scholastic abstractions provide adequate criteria for decisions in nationalized industries. |