May 30, 2026  
2025-2026 NSU Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 NSU Undergraduate Catalog

ECON 2313 - Principles of Macroeconomics


CIP Code: 520601
Description: Students explore the concepts of scarcity, opportunity cost, elasticity, supply, and demand. Students then engage in exercises to learn about national income accounting, unemployment, inflation, drivers of economic growth, the nature and causes of the business cycle, and the neo-Keynesian versus neo-classical debates over fiscal and monetary policy, including an introduction to the Federal Reserve System.

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture contact hours per week: 3
Lab / Studio contact hours per week: 0
Other contact hours per week: 0

LAS Course: Yes