. In this course, students will learn the foundations of macroeconomics as the branch of economics concerned with how decision-making, in an environment of scarcity, maps onto the aggregate economy. Students will examine theories and evidence related the following core set of topics: national income determination, money, monetary and fiscal policy, macroeconomic conditions, international trade and the balance of payments, and economic growth and development. The course deals with the basic tools of analytical macroeconomics applied to the vital problems of our dynamic economy, national income, business fluctuations, unemployment and inflation, the problems of economic growth, government fiscal and monetary policy, money and banking, gold and foreign trade, and the challenge of alternative economic systems.