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One of the requirements at ASU is a basic economics class. Because everyone has to take it, I assume it's the sort of economics that doesn't involve higher math (pity, really, since I like calculus). I don't want to sit in a lecture class with 400 other students, so I'm planning to take a CLEP test from the College Board. Since I know very little about the difference between micro- and macro- economics, I'm asking all of you for help. Which one is easier? Which one is more interesting? Do you happen to know of any really good textbooks?
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I took Macro and it was great fun. I had a wonderful teacher. Mathlike concepts but all qualitative, not quantitative. Liberal arts majors in there were like squealing but it was very easy and interesting.
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Macro economics, at least as offered at my school, is basically a semester of different iterations of the law of supply and demand. Among my group of my friends, it is by far the more popular.
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Dag's right. Micro's far easier, especially if you're into math -- macro's far more interesting, but you'll have to get a quick handle on several different variations of the classic supply-and-demand graph. I'd say do micro if you're just going to walk in and wing it and ace it -- all of which I'm really freaking confident you can do without any trouble or study.
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Neither, instead look for a class that does comparative studies of the different sorts of economic theories/philosophies and systems throughout the last several hundred years.
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That sounds interesting, Shan. Unfortunately, it's not an option. I have to take introductory economics, and the only choice I have is whether it's macro or micro.
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I'd say take micro...but that's partly because at our school, we have to take micro before macro....so I think if you've never taken econ before, you'll get more out of micro. But I'm not sure; I have to take both.
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