Macroeconomics helps us make sense of the forces that shape economies—from inflation and unemployment to growth, interest rates, global markets, and public policy.
In this Specialization, you’ll build a connected understanding of how economists measure and analyze economic activity, beginning with national income, spending, and macroeconomic data.
From there, you’ll explore money and inflation, labor markets, long-run growth, aggregate demand and supply, financial systems, and the global economy. You’ll also examine major macroeconomic models and use them to think through economic fluctuations, exchange rates, stabilization policy, banking, consumption, and investment.
Through quantitative practice and structured problem solving, you’ll develop a stronger framework for interpreting how economies work and how policy decisions can shape economic outcomes.
Applied Learning Project
Throughout the Specialization, you’ll apply macroeconomic concepts through practice assignments, case studies, dialogue activities and graded assignments. You’ll interpret macroeconomic data, work with national income and inflation measures, and analyze questions involving unemployment, economic growth, aggregate demand and supply, and open-economy models.
You’ll also use frameworks such as IS–LM and Mundell–Fleming to examine economic fluctuations, exchange rates, stabilization policy, banking, monetary policy, consumption, and investment.
