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Macroeconomics

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Macroeconomic theory is concerned with the size and output of a national economy, and how the overall economic system behaves as major policy tools, such as interest rates, change. Economists measure the gross domestic product (GDP) of the economy, comprising inputs from individual macro pieces. Employment, consumer and government spending are a couple of the important pieces of the pie that drive growth in GDP.

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