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Microeconomy vs Macroeconomy - What's the difference?

microeconomy | macroeconomy |

As nouns the difference between microeconomy and macroeconomy

is that microeconomy is a very small economy while macroeconomy is the large-scale economy.

microeconomy

English

Noun

(microeconomies)
  • A very small economy.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 21, author=Adam Hochschild, title=Voyage of the Damned, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Rediker looks not at that bigger picture but at the slave ship itself, as a microeconomy where the captain was chief executive, jailer, accountant, paymaster and disciplinarian, exercising these roles by maintaining, from his spacious captain’s cabin in a very unspacious ship, the mystique of what later military leaders would call command isolation. }}

    macroeconomy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The large-scale economy
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 22, Laurie J. Flynn, EBay’s Income Declines 31% as Economy Reduces Traffic, New York Times citation
    • , passage=“There’s no doubt eBay was impacted by the macroeconomy , and our fourth-quarter results reflect this. }}

    Related terms

    *macroeconomic *macroeconomics