I think the majority of the profession would see micro as fundamental and macro as less fundamental--big micro. 

I have argued that the issue is more complicated, and that the two need to be considered simultaneously--micro issues in a macro context, and macro issues in a micro context.  Thus, I did a paper back in 1993 (EEJ) http://ideas.repec.org/a/eej/eeconj/v19y1993i4p447-457.html  on the Macro Foundations to Micro.  Doing a search on Post Walrasian will direct you to writing on the topic since then.   That view sees the economy as a complex evolving system which is beyond grand theorizing, and being discovered from building up from the parts.  While such a view is shared by a number of economists, it is definitely not the mainstream position in macro today. 

Dave


David Colander
CAJ Distinguished Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Middlebury College
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Dear All,

Could anyone point me to the literature on the debate over whether we
should think of Microeconomics or Macroeconomics as the fundamental
aspect of the discipline?

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