Barkley Rosser wrote:
> I would like to see a definite cite/quote from Frisch on this.  


I can't help Barkley Rosser on the original Frisch quotation, having 
myself relied on secondary sources. 

He also asks for the first non-hyphenated use.  The first JSTOR entry 
without a hyphen for "macroeconomics" is Lawrence R. Klein, 
"Macroeconomics and the Theory of Rational Behavior,"  /Econometrica 
/14(2), April 1946, pp. 93-108.   The oldest JSTOR entry for 
"macroeconomic" without a hyphen is Harold L. Reed's Review of Arthur W. 
Marget's /The Theory of Prices/ in /American Economic Review /32(3, part 
1), September 1942, pp. 561-564.  


For "microeconomics" sans hyphen, JSTOR's oldest is Martin 
Bronfenbrenner, "The Role of Money in Equilibrium Capital Theory," 
/Econometrica/ 11(1), January 1943, pp. 35-60. ** 
<http://www.jstor.org/view/00129682/di952476/95p0084j/0?currentResult=00129682%2bdi952476%2b95p0084j%2b23%2c00000003&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FAdvancedResults%3Fhp%3D25%26so%3DOldestFirst%26si%3D1%26q0%3Dmicroeconomics%26f0%3D%26c0%3DNOT%26q1%3Dmicro-economics%26f1%3D%26c1%3DAND%26wc%3Don%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26dc%3DEconomics>  
Reed again the same 1942 review is also the oldest use of 
"microeconomic" without a hyphen in JSTOR.


I am not sure, however, why we should give much significance to the 
presence or not of the hyphen.  Both versions are still in use and, I 
suspect, don't reflect anything very significant historically.


Kevin Hoover