Questions about the State & Market poster

What’s on the State & Market poster?

Market failure against Government failure, side by side. Market failure: Externalities and public goods; Market failure: Information asymmetry; Market failure: Market power; Market failure: Missing markets for risk; Market failure: Argues for intervention; Government failure: Capture by organised interests; Government failure: Information the state lacks; Government failure: Weak incentives to control cost; Government failure: Rigidity and political cycles; Government failure: Argues for restraint; Comparing a real market to an idealised state, or the reverse, is the most common err…. Educational reference. The useful question is comparative: which imperfect institution handles this specific problem better.

Who is the State & Market poster for?

State & Market belongs to the Political Science section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning political economy can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the State & Market poster?

Both markets and states fail. The question is which failure is worse in a given case. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so State & Market belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with State & Market?

Central Bank Independence, Corruption and Financialisation sit alongside State & Market in the Political Science section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Central Bank IndependenceCorruptionFinancialisation

Is the State & Market poster free to download and print?

Yes. State & Market downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Political Science 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 State & Market poster print at?

State & Market 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 State & Market loses nothing.Printing guide