MGMTFT 416Global Economics and Business Cycles
Management-Full-Time MBA · 2 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Comprehensive introduction to macroeconomics, with focus on real-world applications and implications. Provides students—as future decision-makers in business world—with framework through which to analyze domestic and global macroeconomic fluctuations and trends that impact business environment. Study of models of long-run and short-run macroeconomy, economic growth and competitiveness, unemployment and inflation, and exchange and interest rates. Includes case studies such as domestic and global consequences of 2007 to 2009 Great Recession, 2020 COVID-19 shock and subsequent inflation, growth stagnations of USSR (1970s and 1980s) and Japan (1990s to present), and Latin American debt crises of 1990s.
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
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 405.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MGMTFT 416
- MGMTFT 405Managerial Economics
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.