úterý 9. prosince 2008

Odkud pochází slovo makroekonomie?


Slovo makroekonomie pochází z klasické řečtiny a znamená v doslovném překladu hospodařit ve velkém domě nebo spravovat velký dům. Andy Harless vysvětluje:

Literally, provided I haven’t made a mistake in the morphology, “makron oikon nemo” (μακρον οικον νεμω) is Classical Greek for “I manage a large house.” That might seem to have very little to do with anything, but the words μακρον, οικον, and νεμω are also the etymological roots of the word “macroeconomics.” ...

“Oikon” (οικον) is an inflected form of “oikos” (οικος), which means “house.” “Nemo” (νεμω) ... means “I manage.” In Classical Greek, the two words were combined into the word “oikonomos” (οικονομος), which means “house manager.” ... And then there is the prefix “macro,” which occurs so often in English that its meaning needs no discussion. The canonical form of the Greek adjective is “makros" (μακρος), which of course means “large.”

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