Macroeconomics is of great importance for understanding economic processes and phenomena, especially in today's Russia.

At the moment, an unprecedentedly large and speedy change towards a market economy is taking place in several countries, including Russia, with a previously dominant system of a centrally planned economy. In this kind of global process, the development of market economy, it is only macroeconomic theory that forms the basis of economic thinking.

The subject of macroeconomics is the laws of the national economy as a whole. Macroeconomics examines the interaction and mutual influence of the most important segments of the national economy upon each other, or, equivalently, the national household - labor markets, money, capital, goods and services and natural resources. Studying the interaction of national economies is of growing importance in the present day context. A special part of macroeconomics as a subject is the governmental macroeconomic policy and regulation of the national economy which is based on it.

Thus, it becomes possible to isolate three components in macroeconomics: the national economy, state economic policy and the regulation and interaction of national economies within the global economy