Understand national economies and economic policy.
← Back to AP CoursesAP Macroeconomics covers GDP, inflation, unemployment, fiscal and monetary policy.
Notes, graphs, and summaries for AP Macroeconomics.
You'll start the course with an introduction to economic concepts, principles, and models that will serve as a foundation for studying macroeconomics.
You'll look at how economic phenomena such as employment and inflation are measured.
You'll explore how changes in aggregate spending and production, economic fluctuations, and policy actions affect national income, unemployment, and inflation.
You'll examine the financial sector and explain how monetary policy is implemented and transmitted through the banking system.
You'll spend more time exploring the effects of fiscal and monetary policy actions and examine the concept of economic growth.
You'll examine the concept of an open economy in which a country interacts with the rest of the world through product and financial markets.