Simply put, macroeconomics is that branch of economics that focuses on the economy (how it works) as a whole and its behavior or understanding the functioning of an economy by analyzing how national income/output, inflation and employment are determined, what causes fluctuations in these aggregate variables in the short run and what creates or determines economic growth in the long run. Macroeconomics for the short run and long run Traditionally, macroeconomics has been divided into the short run and the long run. In macroeconomics for the short run (my area of core compet http://angelpolitics.com/2017/05/macro-economics-what-is-macroeconomics/