Introduction to Macroeconomics

Where ECON 101 zoomed in on individual buyers and firms, this one pulls the camera back to ask why whole economies grow, slump, inflate, or run trade deficits — and what central banks and governments can actually do about it. You'll work through the standard toolkit (Solow growth, IS/LM, AS/AD, Phillips curve) via a homework set, lectures, and two written exams, with Turkish economic episodes used as the running case study. It's a required Spring follow-up to ECON 101 and the conceptual base for nearly every later course in money, growth, and international economics, so the models you meet here keep reappearing.