Macrohistory seeks out large, long-term trends in world history in search of ultimate patterns by a comparison of proximate details.
[5] Macrohistory is also distinguished from metahistory with the way the latter recognizes historical works as "a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose discourse.
"[6] According to Garry Trompf, macrohistory encompasses but is not limited by metahistory by taking in broad prospectus of change, including those that are imaginal or speculative.
[7] Macrohistory has four "idea frames" – that past events can show: 1) we are progressing; 2) affairs have worsened; 3) everything is repetitive; and, 4) nothing can be understood without an eschaton (end time) or apocatastasis (restoration of all things, or reconstitution).
[10] According to economists Robert Solow,[11] Brian Snowdon,[12] Jason Collins,[13] and to an article in the "Break Through & Mind Changing Idea" section of Wired (Japan),[14][15] Oded Galor's unified growth theory is a macro-historical analysis that has significantly contributed to the understanding of process of development over the entire course of human history and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transition from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of the vast inequality across the globe.