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?
Thanks for your help!
[ June 15, 2004, 01:09 PM: Message edited by: Shigosei ]
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Damn Micronians... LONG LIVE THE ROBOTECH MASTERS!
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
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.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Micro was trivially easy. Macro was annoying, but I had a German grad student teaching it who I understood about 1/3 the time. Go micro.
Dagonee
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
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.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
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.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
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.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Okay, let's see if the new and improved title gets me more advice...
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Macro. Go for the biggest picture possible.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
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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