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A complete AP Macroeconomics sequence covering national indicators, aggregate demand and supply, fiscal and monetary policy, the financial sector, growth, inflation, unemployment, and international finance.

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AP Macroeconomics / introductory college macroeconomics

AP Macroeconomics curriculum

A complete AP Macroeconomics sequence covering national indicators, aggregate demand and supply, fiscal and monetary policy, the financial sector, growth, inflation, unemployment, and international finance.

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6 units, 18-28 weeks self-paced
Units
6 unit sequence
Practice
480 checked answers
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Self-paced or tutor-guided
Outcomes
  • Use macroeconomic graphs, data, and accounting identities to explain economy-wide outcomes.
  • Trace fiscal, monetary, and exchange-rate changes through connected markets.
  • Write AP-ready policy analysis with short-run, long-run, and tradeoff reasoning.

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  1. 01

    Basic economic concepts

    • Use scarcity, opportunity cost, production possibilities, comparative advantage, supply, and demand.
    • Connect market foundations to economy-wide analysis.

    Practice: Complete a comparative-advantage problem and explain how specialization changes consumption possibilities.

  2. 02

    Economic indicators and the business cycle

    • Calculate and interpret GDP, unemployment, price indices, inflation, and real versus nominal values.
    • Use the circular-flow model and business-cycle evidence.

    Practice: Analyze a small macro dataset, compute two indicators, and state what each measure misses.

  3. 03

    National income and price determination

    • Use aggregate demand, short-run and long-run aggregate supply, equilibrium, multipliers, and fiscal policy.
    • Explain recessionary and inflationary gaps.

    Practice: Draw an AD-AS shock, calculate a policy response, and narrate short-run and long-run adjustment.

  4. 04

    Financial sector

    • Use money functions, bank balance sheets, deposit expansion, the money market, loanable funds, and monetary policy.
    • Trace policy through interest rates, investment, and aggregate demand.

    Practice: Complete a bank-balance-sheet calculation and a connected money-market-to-AD policy graph sequence.

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