What’s on the Globalisation poster
Documented gains against Documented costs, side by side.
- Documented gains: Lower consumer prices
- Documented gains: Access to larger markets
- Documented gains: Technology and knowledge transfer
- Documented gains: Large reductions in absolute poverty
- Documented gains: Efficiency from specialisation
- Documented costs: Concentrated job losses in exposed regions
- Documented costs: Adjustment slower than models assumed
- Documented costs: Downward pressure on some wages
- Documented costs: Supply chain fragility
- Documented costs: Environmental cost of transport and offshoring
- The gains are diffuse and the losses concentrated, which is why the politics rarely f…
The evidence that displaced workers move smoothly to new sectors turned out to be much weaker than the theory assumed.
Questions about the Globalisation poster
- What’s on the Globalisation poster?
- Documented gains against Documented costs, side by side. Documented gains: Lower consumer prices; Documented gains: Access to larger markets; Documented gains: Technology and knowledge transfer; Documented gains: Large reductions in absolute poverty; Documented gains: Efficiency from specialisation; Documented costs: Concentrated job losses in exposed regions; Documented costs: Adjustment slower than models assumed; Documented costs: Downward pressure on some wages; Documented costs: Supply chain fragility; Documented costs: Environmental cost of transport and offshoring; The gains are diffuse and the losses concentrated, which is why the politics rarely f…. The evidence that displaced workers move smoothly to new sectors turned out to be much weaker than the theory assumed.
- Who is the Globalisation poster for?
- Globalisation belongs to the Economics section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning international economics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Globalisation poster?
- Aggregate gains are well evidenced. So are concentrated local losses. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Globalisation belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Globalisation?
- Balance of Payments, Commodity Economics and Comparative Advantage sit alongside Globalisation in the Economics section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Balance of PaymentsCommodity EconomicsComparative Advantage
- Is the Globalisation poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Globalisation 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 Globalisation poster print at?
- Globalisation 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 Globalisation loses nothing.Printing guide
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