ECON 202CMacroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics
Economics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Heterogeneous-agent models of endogenous fluctuations and growth. General equilibrium techniques in macroeconomics. Overlapping fluctuations model with national debt. Fiscal policy. Externalities, indeterminacy, and growth. Expectations and business cycles. Money and monetary policy. Historical overview of mainstream macroeconomics. Wicksell and Keynes. Monetarist controversy. New classical and new Keynesian macroeconomics.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ECON 202C
- ECON 221AMonetary Economics I
- ECON 221CMonetary Economics III
- ECON 221DMonetary Economics IV
- ECON 286AEconomic Development
- ECON 286BCost-Benefit Analysis of Development Projects
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 5 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.