Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

The field of economics that studies the behavior of the aggregate economy. Macroeconomics examines economy-wide phenomena such as changes in unemployment, national income, rate of growth, gross domestic product, inflation and price levels.

Notes:

Macroeconomics is focused on the movement and trends in the economy as a whole, while in microeconomics the focus is placed on factors that affect the decisions made by firms and individuals. The factors that are studied by macro and micro will often influence each other, such as the current level of unemployment in the economy as a whole will affect the supply of workers which an oil company can hire from, for example.

See also: Classical Economics, Dismal Science, Economics, Gross Domestic Product - GDP, Microeconomics, Unemployment Rate

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Macroeconomics

Analysis of a country's economy as a whole.