Macroeconomics: Another two days of intense study

Coming right on the heels of our three-day seminar and statistics, we had an introduction to macroeconomics spread over the course of two days. That may not sound like a lot of time, six hours each day for two days, and as I mentioned with statistics perhaps the aim was not to turn us into experts on the subject but to generally make us aware of the terminology that people use when dealing with these subjects.

Whereas with statistics the terms were "normal distribution" and probability and all manner of variables p, z, and sigma, now we came away with a basic understanding of "aggregate demand and supply" and "fiscal and monetary policy." As with statistics, the moment that the course ends you put all the stuff out of your mind and that means you forget a lot of what you learned in the class, but I'm sure that it hasn't all been lost and that a little bit of it will come back once I start reviewing it with my classmates before the exam in November.

There is a very brief introduction to some of the principles used in discussions of macroeconomics in Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics