At the HET page of the New School, Goncalo Fonseca wrote: (http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/frisch.htm) "The Norwegian economist Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was the lord of economic nomenclature. He coined many of the words and phrases we are now familiar with in economics, such as "macroeconomics", "econometrics" and "flow-input, point-output", "impulse and propagation", etc. Some of his novel words did not really catch on (e.g. "passus coefficient", "polypoly", the "pari-passu law", etc.), but that hardly deterred him. At any rate, Frisch was in an excellent position to be master wordsmith: he also helped create the very fields he littered with his nomenclature." Does it sound intriguing, I mean, the idea of littering with nomenclature? I tend to think that macroeconomics has no reason to have such a hopeless name: being macro does not give any distinction from being micro from an anlaytical point of view. The prefix creates a pretension that somehow aggregates have a separate kind of character worthy of separate treatment. See for example how micro takes over macro and robs it of any special character at the link below: [1]http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpma/0404012.html Mohammad Gani