Mediamacro

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A narrative or set of beliefs promulgated as factual by news media that distorts macroeconomic consensus, e.g. often presenting the (total) government deficit as a prime economic indicator and invoking analogies between governments and households on debt. uncountable

    "Politicians who appeared to deviate from the new ‘mediamacro consensus’ of deficit fetishism suffered as a consequence."

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"Politicians who appeared to deviate from the new ‘mediamacro consensus’ of deficit fetishism suffered as a consequence."

Etymology

Coined in 2014 by Simon Wren-Lewis. Compound of media + macro (“macroeconomics”).

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