The points given below explains the difference between micro and macro economics in detail:
- Microeconomics studies the particular market segment of the economy, whereas Macroeconomics studies the whole economy, that covers several market segments.
- Micro economics stresses on individual economic units. As against this, the focus of macro economics is on aggregate economic variables.
- While microeconomics is applied to operational or internal issues, environmental and external issues are the concern of macro economics.
- Microeconomics deals with an individual product, firm, household, industry, wages, prices, etc., while Macroeconomics deals with aggregates like national income, national output, price level, etc.
- Microeconomics covers issues like how the price of a particular commodity will affect its quantity demanded and quantity supplied and vice versa while Macroeconomics covers major issues of an economy like unemployment, monetary/ fiscal policies, poverty, international trade, etc.
- Microeconomics determine the price of a particular commodity along with the prices of complementary and the substitute goods, whereas the Macroeconomics is helpful in maintaining the general price level.
- While analysing any economy, micro economics takes a bottom-up approach, whereas the macroeconomics takes a top-down approach into consideration.