<p>i know this post isn't about college search and selection, but i need an answer fairly quick since spots for classes are running out. I am going to be a freshman this coming fall and i know i will be taking both micro and macro economics this year. i don't want to take them simultaneously and read that it doesn't matter which one precedes the other. i would just like some input on which one to take first semester. what benefits are there to taking a certain one before the other? i am currently signed up for micro but was seriously considering switching to macro. thanks, any info would be appreciated.</p>
<p>well in highschool, i heard that knowing micro and learning macro was easier than the other way around. i would take micro and then macro. but of course, that could have been only for AP tests. not sure.</p>
<p>(200th post!)</p>
<p>Micro studies individual markets and market participants: consumers, producers, government intervention into markets, supply, demand, prices.</p>
<p>Macro studies the aggregates: the vast sum of the behaviors studied in micro. </p>
<p>In macro, it can be helpful to remember that the basis of macro is micro. Also, in macro, the behavior of certain individual prices, most notably interest rates and possibly foreign exchange rates, will come up. It will then be helpful to have some preexisting knowledge of market behavior, as studied in micro.</p>
<p>So, you can do it either way, but IMO it is preferable to study micro first.</p>