"mediamacro" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2014 November 24, Simon Wren-Lewis, “Why We Need Our Fiscal Policy Instrument Back”, in Social Europe",
          "text": "Politicians who appeared to deviate from the new ‘mediamacro consensus’ of deficit fetishism suffered as a consequence.",
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          "ref": "2015 February 19, Simon Wren-Lewis, “The Austerity Con”, in London Review of Books",
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          "text": "2016, Felix R. FitzRoy, Elissaios Papyrakis, An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy, Routledge (2nd revised ed., 1st ed. from 2009), →ISBN.\nThis has been particularly striking since 2010, when most left-of-centre parties such as Labour in the UK and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany have embraced the conservative-populist arguments for deficit reduction and austerity of the mainstream media, or ‘mediamacro’, which are rejected by almost all academic macroeconomists (at least in the UK and US, though not in Germany).",
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