For ancient Greek philosophy, the relationship between the particular and the universal was important. The pre-Socratics, Plato, and the Stoics, talked much about microcosm and macrocosm. They developed an “organic” way of thinking able to consider both micro and macro phenomena. We still find traces of this tradition in modern science. In sociology, the word microcosm is used to identify small groups whose behavior is typical of a larger social body. In economics, macroecono