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microfoundations

microfoundations is the plural of microfoundation.

Meaning of microfoundation

Noun

microfoundation (plural microfoundations)

  1. A microeconomic foundation for a macroeconomic theory or system
    • But whether such microfoundations are necessary at all is not entirely clear.2015 October 24, “Learning What to Want: Context-Sensitive Preference Learning”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Noun

microfoundations pl

  1. (plural, singular) A macroeconomic methodology of basing macroeconomic models and theories on microeconomic processes.

Questions about microfoundations

What does microfoundations mean?
Microfoundations means a macroeconomic methodology of basing macroeconomic models and theories on microeconomic processes.
What is microfoundations the plural of?
Microfoundations is the plural of microfoundation.
What part of speech is microfoundations?
Microfoundations is a noun.

Words near microfoundations in the dictionary

  1. microfossils
  2. microfouler
  3. microfoulers
  4. microfouling
  5. microfoundation
  6. microfoundations
  7. microfounded
  8. microfraction
  9. microfractionated
  10. microfractionation
  11. microfractionator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microfoundations (page history and authors); microfoundation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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