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burgernomics

noun

Etymology

Blend of burger + economics, equivalent to burger + -nomics, coined in The Economist in 1986 by Pam Woodall with the introduction of the Big Mac Index.

  1. derived from *nem-✻ — “to distribute; to give; to take”
  2. derived from *weyḱ-✻ — “(verb) to enter in; to settle; (noun) settlement”
  3. derived from οἰκονομῐκός — “skilled in household management; frugal, thrifty, economical”
  4. derived from oeconomicus — “(noun) household manager, housekeeper, steward; (adjective) relating to orderly arrangement of written material”
  5. derived from iconomike — “(noun) household management; person in charge of household management; (adjective) relating to household management; relating to domestic or family matters; relating to management of a state; reducing costs or expenses, economical”
  6. derived from iconomique
  7. inherited from economike
  8. compounded as burgernomics — “burger + economics”

Definitions

  1. An informal measurement of the purchasing power parity between currencies, based on the…

    An informal measurement of the purchasing power parity between currencies, based on the price of a Big Mac in various countries.

    • Burgernomics is based upon the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP)...
    • Both The Economist's and Smart's study move at the intersection between burgernomics and burgerology. But they also move across each other and thereby point to a more general contrast.
    • Light-hearted burgernomics has become a matter of increasing academic interest and has spawned many articles and even a whole book by Ong (2003) of the International Monetary Fund.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA