| − | Macroeconomics is a topic better defined at our bete noire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics than we can hope to do here without considerable real study. | + | Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, or the analysis of large subdivisions of the economy. It is often said that "macroeconomics" is to "microeconomics" as "forest" is to "trees," that is, macroeconomics focuses on broader interactions while microeconomics focuses on smaller events. |