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You were right: Frisch did use the term "macrodynamic". And Geoff Hodgson was
correct after all. BTW, the OED has the following entries:
macroeconomic, a. [DRAFT REVISION Mar. 2001]
Of or relating to macroeconomics.
1939 H. W. ROBINSON Econ. of Building vi. 93 All our statistics..are obtainable
only for large areas like England and Wales, Great Britain or the United
Kingdom... Our approach is therefore macro-economic. 1940 Jrnl. Amer. Statist.
Assoc. 35 438 The fundamental disadvantage [of the book]..lies in the approach,
i.e., what Mr. Robinson calls "macro-economic". 1948 Econometrica 16 309
(heading) Some conditions of macroeconomic stability. 1957 Economist 5 Oct.
36/3 The macroeconomic prophets, having seen their forecasts repeatedly
falsified, have lost something of their confidence. 1991 Financial Times 20
Mar. 24/1 The central objective of the government's macroeconomic policy
continues to be the defeat of inflation.
AND
macrodynamic, a. [DRAFT ENTRY Mar. 2000]
Econ.
Concerning processes of change occurring in an economic system as a whole.
1933 R. FRISCH Econ. Essays in Honour Gustav Cassel 172 The macro-dynamic
analysis..tries to give an account of the fluctuations of the whole economic
system taken in its entirety. 1972 K. K. KURIHARA Essays in Macrodynamic Econ.
iii. 45 The nature and direction of theoretical advance in the field of
macrodynamic economics. 1992 R. M. GOODWIN & P. M. PACINI in A. Vercelli & N.
Dimitri Macroecon. ix. 255 Models offering a deterministic explanation of the
erratic behaviour of economic aggregates are classified according to two more
general approaches to macroeconomics: the macrodynamic approach and the
intertemporal maximization approach.
Nicholas J. Theocarakis
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