SHOE Archives

Societies for the History of Economics

SHOE@YORKU.CA
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
HES: Re: QUERY--Origin of the word "macroeconomics"
From:
[log in to unmask] (Barkley Rosser)
Date:
Mon Apr 30 19:38:11 2007
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (16 lines) 
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

ATOM RSS1 RSS2