This chapter introduces macroeconomics and its key concepts. It discusses how macroeconomists study issues like economic growth, unemployment, and inflation at an aggregate level. The chapter also outlines the tools macroeconomists use, including economic models that simplify complex realities. It provides an example supply and demand model of the car market and discusses the distinction between endogenous and exogenous variables. The chapter concludes with an outline of the book's contents and a summary of macroeconomics as the study of the economy as a whole.