nanoeconomics

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noun

Economics at a lower level than microeconomics, sometimes dealing with individual transactions.

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Meanings

nounnanoeconomics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableEconomics at a lower level than microeconomics, sometimes dealing with individual transactions.

    This is an area defined by Arrow (1976) as nanoeconomics, and is characteristic of the new institutional microeconomy.

    1997, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions, page 259

Origin

From nano- + economics.

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