Mesoeconomics or Mezzoeconomics is a neologism used to describe the study of economic arrangements which are not based either on the microeconomics of buying and selling and supply and demand, nor on the macroeconomic reasoning of aggregate totals of demand, but on the importance of the structures under which these forces play out, and how to measure these effects.
Among the researchers, the most notable contribution to the development of problems of regional economic theory, issues of the location of production forces and the efficiency of regional production was made by German economists - Johann Heinrich Thünen, Alfred Weber, Walter Kristaller, August Lesch, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania Walter Isard, French economist Jean Chardonnay, American economist of Russian origin Vasily Leontiev, V. Thompson, T. Palander, as well as the authors of the famous textbooks H. Armstrong and J. Taylor.
Several books on this topic including Mann in 2011[1] and Ng in 1987[2] help define the scope of mesoeconomics.
[citation needed] The term Mesoeconomics is still emerging and should be used with restraint due to unfamiliarity with most audiences.
In orthodox neoclassical economics, there are two main recognized types of economic thinking - microeconomics, which focuses on the actions of individual buyers and sellers in response to signals sent by the supply and demand ratio to establish production and allocate resources, and macroeconomics, which focuses on how the economy generally goes through cycles of activity and how the various large industries relate to each other.
Nekrasov believes that in this case a region should be understood as a large territory of the country with more or less homogeneous natural conditions, and mainly - a characteristic orientation of production forces.
In orthodox neoclassical synthesis economics, there are two main kinds of recognized economic thinking – micro-economics, which focuses on the action of individual buyers and sellers responding to signals sent by price to set production and distribution of effort, and macroeconomics, which focuses on how whole economies go through cycles of activity, and how different large aggregate sectors relate to each other.
Mesoeconomic thinking argues that there are important structures which are not reflected in price signals and supply and demand curves, nor in the large economic measures of inflation, Gross Domestic Product, the unemployment rate, and other measures of aggregate demand and savings.
[citation needed] While many economists using the term use game theory and evolutionary economic concepts, the converse is not recognized to be the case: there are many who dispute the need for a meso scale theory of economics, arguing instead that rational expectations at infinity can appropriately model price strategies.
Notable examples of this line of thinking include Robert J. Barro and Thomas Schelling.