it depends what do you want to study.If you are looking at long term, then you should refer to different growth models. When you want to look at short-term, then you should look at models of real business cycle. Because there are different shcool of thoughts, there are different approach to economics problems. And some models are useful for study a particular phenomonen. The important thing is that we should have a good grasp of the intuitive behind things, it is the explanation that you can give matters