Our school offers micro, and I’m wondering if there would be any point to my self-studying for macro?</p>
Micro deals with the firm, and macro deals with the economy as a whole.</p>
Macroeconomists are wrong about everything and Microeconomists are wrong about the small things!</p>
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in all seriousness, macro is about national economy, gdp, debt balance, the fed, and governmental action mostly (the class at least taught that)</p>
micro is about individual choice, utility, elasticity of firms, individual businesses, etc.</p>
i’d say micro has more real world application if you aren’t going to be an economist</p>
Macro is 1000x easier than Micro. In Micro, you study the “in depth analysis” of the economy. You spend a lot of units learning about the different types of economies and markets, and etc. Graphs and math are involved with micro, way more so than Macro. Macro is the study of the economy of a whole. I definitely think self studying Macro would be possible, with the benefit of taking Micro at the same time.</p>
Sorry everyone. should have clarified. I understand the difference between the two. I’m wondering how much more effort I would have to exert to self-study Macro while doing micro, and if colleges like seeing a person taking both.</p>
I think it is worth the effort if you are up for it. I think self-study Macro is probably a little easier than it would be to self-study micro. It is pretty typical to take both an intro micro and an intro macro for college in majors like business. Both courses might be pre-requisites before you can take more advanced economics courses, as well.</p>
Good luck.</p>