Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Peter Jacobsen
“[M]icroeconomics tends to focus on the logic of individual decision-making, and macroeconomics focuses on how things operate on a societal level. The forest vs. trees is a good analogy for macroeconomics and microeconomics respectively. … Macroeconomics is, by definition, about the whole economy. So any time the government tries to improve the economy, it is engaging in macroeconomic policy. However, this answer is, at best, incomplete. To see why, we need to talk more about the different forms of analysis we see between microeconomic analyses and macroeconomic analyses.” (10/24/24)
https://fee.org/articles/why-do-politicians-focus-on-macroeconomics/