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Macroeconomics

Aggregate Macroeconomics Map: History, Schools, Theories, Models, and Application

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Concepts

The macro textbook. Output, prices, labor, money, trade, policy, and the mechanisms that connect them.

Schools

Ten traditions side by side. Filter by stance on fiscal, monetary, and market-clearing assumptions.

Models

Theory-based, empirical, DSGE, and agent-based families. Pick by the question you need answered.

Policy

Fiscal, monetary, and trade policy tools. See how each school thinks about intervention, stimulus, and stabilization.

History

Timeline of macro eras, crises, and policy turns from pre-Keynes to the post-2008 rethink.

Lab

24 guided pipelines across 4 labs. Forecast, estimate, simulate, and combine on 450+ indicators.

Macroeconomics

The study of economies tracking aggregates such as GDP, unemployment rates, and inflation to understand national economic health, system, and behavior.

From your individual decisions
to the whole country

In Microeconomics, we track individual economic players' decisions: pricing goods, producing output, gauging demand, hiring labor.

YouConsumer
FirmProducer
MICROMACROaggregate
HouseholdsAll consumers
SectorsAll producers

Zooming out

we see how each economic player becomes a vital organ in an economic system

How the system connects

The Economic Circuit

Aggregate outcomes are produced by institutions, not abstractions. Hover or click any node to trace how money, labor, and goods flow through the system.

info
positive
caution
risk
Fast Medium Slow

Hover to preview connections. Click any node to see its role, signals, and flow channels.

Zooming out more

Clustering these players further becomes Aggregate Demand and Supply

Aggregate Demand & Supply

Price LevelReal GDPADSRAS
Equilibrium

AD and SRAS intersect at equilibrium. Output is at potential, and prices are stable.

Output

Stable

Prices

Stable

Read conceptExplore model
Patient: U.S. Economy

Vital Signs Monitor

LIVE
FRED / BLS / BEA
Chart notes
StatusActive circulation
SourceAD-AS equilibrium
WatchTrend divergence
Reading

Output, prices, and employment are the three vitals that tell you whether the macro circuit is expanding, overheating, or stalling.

What is GDP?Understanding inflationAll 450+ indicators
Macro telemetry3 channels
OUTPUTReal GDP
---
PRICESHeadline CPI
---
UNEMPLOYMENTU-3 Rate
---
Leadingpredict turns
Yield Curve---
Sentiment---
Retail Sales---
Coincidentconfirm the present
Fed Funds---
Core PCE---
Laggingconfirm the past
GDP Growth2.8%
Capacity Util78.5%

These vitals don't sit still.
They cycle.

The Business Cycle

Vitals don't hold steady. They oscillate. That oscillation is the business cycle. Hover any phase to learn more.

EXPANSIONCONTRACTIONTROUGHRECOVERYPEAKPeakTroughdouble dipPeakTrend
GDP Output
Long-run Trend
Peak
Trough
Recession
Read about business cyclesTrack the indicators

At its core, the business cycle is complex, unpredictable, and irregular, making it notoriously hard to forecast. Explaining fluctuations in aggregate economic activity is a primary concern of macroeconomics. Various theories and schools have been proposed to explain them.

Many doctors, one patient...

Macroeconomics has competing schools of thought. Each diagnoses the same economy differently. Select a policy to see who agrees and who fights.

Policy targeting

Click an orb or select a policy to see the debate.

Compare all schoolsRead the concepts

Macroeconomic schools didn't
emerge overnight

Each crisis reshaped what economists believed. Each school was forged in failure.

Pre

Pre-Keynesian Era

Classical economists trusted markets to self-correct. Say's Law dominated: supply creates its own demand. No role for government.

Read more
Read the full historySee the schools

Have your own theory?

Build it from the ground up

Concepts, models, policies, and the vocabulary to connect them all.

Master the Fundamentals

Concepts, models, policy frameworks, and the language that ties them together.

Theoretical

Classic frameworks that define how macro works

AD-AS ModelPhillips CurveSolow Growth ModelIS-LM ModelTaylor RuleMundell-Fleming
Empirical

Data-driven forecasting and estimation

ARIMAVAR / SVARNowcastingML ForecastsBayesian Estimation
Computational

Simulation and structural modeling

DSGEAgent-BasedMonte CarloCalibration
Hybrid

Combine and pool across paradigms

Forecast CombinationBMAStackingEnsemble

AD-AS Model

Explains how aggregate demand and supply determine price level and output

Open model

Ready to test it?

Run it in the Lab

Forecast, estimate, simulate, and combine. 24 guided pipelines across 4 labs.

Computational Economics

Macro Lab

Your computational economics workbench. Build, calibrate, and test models against real data. 24 guided pipelines across 4 labs.

Open the LabExplore the labs
Forecast
Run ARIMA, VAR, nowcasting, and ML forecasts on 450+ indicators
DSGE
Calibrate and simulate dynamic stochastic models
Agent Based
Build agent-based models with heterogeneous agents
Combination
Pool forecasts with Bates-Granger, BMA, or stacking weights