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HES: QUERY--Origin of the word "macroeconomics"
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[log in to unmask] (Pat Gunning)
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Sun Apr 29 14:33:57 2007
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According to Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Samuelson attributes the first use of 
the word "macroeconomics" to Lindahl in 1939.

http://www.sigov.si/zmar/apublic/jiidt/iib0298/hodg02ib.pdf

Does this origin ring true?


Pat Gunning

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