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microeconomics definition - finance
The branch of economics that examines how economic decisions are made by individual businesses, households, and industries. In contrast, macroeconomics analyzes big-picture economic decision-making throughout the economy and examines the effect that employment or inflation is likely to have on the economy. See also macroeconomics.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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