also macro-economics, "the science or study of the economy as a whole," by 1946, from macroeconomic; also see -ics.
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macroeconomic adj.
also macro-economic, "pertaining to the economy as a whole," 1938, from macro- + economic.
-ics
in the names of sciences or disciplines (acoustics, aerobics, economics, etc.), a 16c. revival of the classical custom of using the neuter plural of adjectives with Greek -ikos "pertaining to" (see -ic) to mean "matters relevant to" and also as the titles of treatises about them. Subject matters that acquired their English names before c. 1500, however, tend to be singular in form (arithmetic, logic, magic, music, rhetoric). The grammatical number of words in -ics (mathematics is/mathematics are) is a confused question.