IN CONTEXT
The macroeconomy
François Quesnay (1694–1774)
1664–76 English economist William Petty introduces the concepts of national income and expenditure.
1755 Irish merchant banker Richard Cantillon’s Essay, first published in France, discusses the circulation of money from the city to the countryside.
1885 Karl Marx’s Capital describes the circulation of capital using a model inspired by Quesnay.
1930s Russian-American economist Simon Kuznets develops modern national income accounting.
In economics one can think small—microeconomics—or one can think as large as the entire system: this is the study of macroeconomics. In ...
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