What’s on the Economic Growth poster
Extensive growth against Intensive growth, side by side.
- Extensive growth: More labour, capital or land
- Extensive growth: Adding inputs to the same process
- Extensive growth: Subject to diminishing returns
- Extensive growth: Cannot continue indefinitely
- Extensive growth: Raises output, not output per person
- Intensive growth: More output from the same inputs
- Intensive growth: Technology and better organisation
- Intensive growth: Not bounded by diminishing returns
- Intensive growth: Sustainable over long periods
- Intensive growth: Raises output per person
- Productivity growth is what raises living standards. Everything else eventually runs…
Compounding matters enormously: 2% annual growth doubles income in 35 years; 1% takes 70.
Questions about the Economic Growth poster
- What’s on the Economic Growth poster?
- Extensive growth against Intensive growth, side by side. Extensive growth: More labour, capital or land; Extensive growth: Adding inputs to the same process; Extensive growth: Subject to diminishing returns; Extensive growth: Cannot continue indefinitely; Extensive growth: Raises output, not output per person; Intensive growth: More output from the same inputs; Intensive growth: Technology and better organisation; Intensive growth: Not bounded by diminishing returns; Intensive growth: Sustainable over long periods; Intensive growth: Raises output per person; Productivity growth is what raises living standards. Everything else eventually runs…. Compounding matters enormously: 2% annual growth doubles income in 35 years; 1% takes 70.
- Who is the Economic Growth poster for?
- Economic Growth belongs to the Economics section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning macroeconomics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Economic Growth poster?
- More inputs, or better use of them. Only the second raises living standards indefinitely. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Economic Growth belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Economic Growth?
- Aggregate Demand & Supply, The Business Cycle and Exchange Rate Systems sit alongside Economic Growth in the Economics section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Aggregate Demand & SupplyThe Business CycleExchange Rate Systems
- Is the Economic Growth poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Economic Growth downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Economics section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Economic Growth poster print at?
- Economic Growth is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Economic Growth loses nothing.Printing guide
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