UCA Core lower division elective in the Social Science area and required course of all business majors, economics majors, economics minors, financial services minor, and actuarial studies minors. The mode of instruction is lecture/discussion. The course is half of the disciplinary core in economics, designed for students who will need competence in interpreting macroeconomic events and forecasting the effects of macroeconomic policies within their major studies and in subsequent careers. It is a study of the market for goods, capital, labor, and money; national economic goals and policies. Tools of macroeconomic analysis. [ACTS: ECON2103]