Economics posters
LearnPosters has 100 free printable economics posters, grouped into 7 topics: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, International economics, Behavioural economics. The models, curves and identities an economics degree runs on. They are made for undergraduates, professionals and anyone revising the subject. Every one downloads as a vector PDF that prints sharp on US Letter, A4 or a copy-shop A1.
Micro and macro foundations, the econometrics that tests them, and the fields built on top. Diagrams you will redraw a hundred times.
100 free printable posters · 7 topics · vector PDF
Microeconomics
Supply, demand, firms and market structure.
Supply & Demand
How price and quantity settle in a competitive market.
Elasticity
The four elasticities, and what each measures.
Consumer Choice
How a consumer allocates a limited budget.
Production & Costs
How costs behave as output rises in the short and long run.
Market Structures
The four structures, and what each does to price and output.
Perfect Competition
The benchmark model, and what it assumes.
Monopoly
How a single seller prices, and why it creates a welfare loss.
Oligopoly
Why a few firms behave differently from many.
Market Failure
The conditions under which markets do not allocate efficiently.
Externalities
Costs and benefits that fall on people outside the transaction.
Public Goods
Why some goods are never supplied by markets.
The Labour Market
How wages are determined, and what shifts them.
Efficiency & Welfare
The efficiency concepts, and what they leave out.
Price Controls
What happens when a price is fixed away from equilibrium.
Firm Objectives
What firms actually maximise, beyond the textbook assumption.
Macroeconomics
Output, inflation, unemployment and policy.
GDP
What GDP measures, the three ways to compute it, and what it omits.
Inflation
What causes a sustained rise in the price level.
Measuring Inflation
How a price index is built, and where it goes wrong.
Unemployment
The types, and why each needs a different remedy.
Aggregate Demand & Supply
The framework for output and the price level together.
The Multiplier
Why an initial injection changes output by more than itself.
Monetary Policy
How a central bank influences demand, and the lags involved.
Fiscal Policy
Government spending and taxation as demand management.
The Phillips Curve
The inflation-unemployment relationship, and why it shifted.
Economic Growth
What makes an economy larger over the long run.
The Business Cycle
The recurring pattern of expansion and contraction.
Money & Banking
What money is, and how commercial banks create most of it.
Government Debt
What the debt burden means, and what actually makes it sustainable.
Exchange Rate Systems
Floating, fixed and managed, and the trade-off each accepts.
Policy Conflicts
Why macroeconomic objectives cannot all be met at once.
Econometrics
Estimating relationships from data.
Regression
What a regression coefficient means, and what it does not.
Correlation & Causation
The four reasons two variables move together.
Omitted Variable Bias
The commonest reason a regression coefficient is wrong.
Hypothesis Testing
What a p-value says, and the four things it does not.
Instrumental Variables
Finding causal effects when you cannot randomise.
Difference in Differences
Comparing change over time between a treated and untreated group.
Regression Discontinuity
Using an arbitrary threshold as a natural experiment.
Panel Data
Following the same units over time, and what that buys.
Time Series
Analysing a variable observed over time, and the trap in it.
Selection Bias
When the sample is not who you think it is.
Forecasting
What forecasts can do, and the honest limits.
Economic Data
Where economic data comes from, and how much to trust it.
Presenting Results
Communicating an estimate honestly.
International economics
Trade, exchange rates and balance of payments.
Comparative Advantage
Why trade benefits both parties even when one is better at everything.
Trade Barriers
The tools that restrict trade, and who bears their cost.
Balance of Payments
The accounts recording all transactions with the rest of the world.
What Moves Exchange Rates
The short-run and long-run drivers, which differ.
Globalisation
What integrated markets deliver, and what they disrupt.
Trade Agreements
The levels of integration, from a free trade area to a union.
Emerging Markets
What distinguishes them, and the risks that come with the growth.
International Institutions
The bodies governing trade and finance, and what each does.
Global Imbalances
Why some countries run persistent surpluses and others deficits.
Effects of a Currency Move
What a depreciation actually does, and how quickly.
The Economics of Migration
What the evidence shows about labour movement.
Commodity Economics
Why commodity prices swing so violently.
Terms of Trade
The ratio of export prices to import prices, and why it matters.
Foreign Direct Investment
What FDI brings beyond the capital itself.
Currency Crises
How a peg breaks, and the pattern that recurs.
Behavioural economics
Where the rational model breaks.
Where the Rational Model Breaks
The assumptions of standard theory, and the evidence against each.
Prospect Theory
How people actually evaluate gains and losses.
Shortcuts in Economic Choice
The mental shortcuts, and the errors they systematically produce.
Present Bias
Why people plan to save and then do not.
Framing
How the same information changes decisions when described differently.
Fairness & Reciprocity
Where people sacrifice money to punish unfairness.
Mental Accounting
Treating money differently depending on where it came from.
Nudges in Policy
Where behavioural insight has been applied to public policy.
Overconfidence
The most consistently documented bias, and what it costs.
Behavioural Finance
How psychology shows up in market prices.
Critiques of Behavioural Economics
The honest limits of the field.
Choice Overload
When more options make decisions worse rather than better.
Scarcity
How lacking something changes how people think.
Status Quo Bias
The pull of leaving things as they are.
Development
Growth, poverty and institutions.
Measuring Development
Why income alone is an inadequate measure.
Poverty Traps
Why poverty can be self-reinforcing rather than temporary.
Institutions
Why similar resources produce very different outcomes.
Does Aid Work?
What the evidence shows about development assistance.
Structural Transformation
The shift of workers from agriculture to industry and services.
Inequality
How inequality is measured, and why it matters economically.
Education & Development
What returns education produces, and the schooling-learning gap.
Health & Development
The two-way relationship between health and income.
Urbanisation
Why cities concentrate growth, and what strains that creates.
Climate & Development
The tension between growth and emissions, stated fairly.
The Informal Economy
The large share of activity outside formal registration.
Randomised Trials in Development
What field experiments established, and what they cannot settle.
Financial Inclusion
Access to savings, payments and credit, and what each delivers.
Population & Development
How the age structure of a population affects growth.
Public economics
Taxation, spending and market failure.
What Governments Do Economically
The economic functions of the state, stated neutrally.
Who Really Pays a Tax
The difference between who remits a tax and who bears it.
Efficient Taxation
What makes one tax less economically damaging than another.
Public Spending
Where government money goes, and the categories that matter.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Appraising a public project, and the judgements inside it.
Welfare Systems
How income support is designed, and the trade-off at its centre.
Public Choice
Applying economic reasoning to political decisions.
Economics of Regulation
When regulation improves outcomes, and what it costs.
Environmental Economics
Pricing pollution, and the instruments available.
Health Economics
Why healthcare markets behave unlike ordinary markets.
Which Level of Government
Deciding what belongs to central, regional and local government.
Progressive Taxation
The case for and against rates rising with income.
Pensions
The two funding models, and the risk each carries.
Debt Across Generations
Whether borrowing shifts a burden to those not yet born.
Questions about the Economics posters
- What is the Economics section of LearnPosters?
- The models, curves and identities an economics degree runs on. Micro and macro foundations, the econometrics that tests them, and the fields built on top. Diagrams you will redraw a hundred times.
- What topics do the Economics posters cover?
- 100 posters across 7 topics. Microeconomics — Supply, demand, firms and market structure. Macroeconomics — Output, inflation, unemployment and policy. Econometrics — Estimating relationships from data. International economics — Trade, exchange rates and balance of payments. Behavioural economics — Where the rational model breaks. Development — Growth, poverty and institutions. Public economics — Taxation, spending and market failure.
- Who are the Economics posters for?
- The economics charts are pitched at undergraduates and professionals — the frameworks and equations a course keeps returning to. Nothing here is tied to a school year, so a curious beginner and someone revising the same material for an exam are looking at the same economics chart.
- Which Economics poster should I print first?
- Supply & Demand, Elasticity and Consumer Choice are the ones people reach for first — they are the references the rest of the economics set assumes you already have on the wall.Supply & DemandElasticityConsumer Choice
- Are the Economics posters free to print?
- Yes — all 100 of them. Each economics poster is a free vector PDF that needs no account, prints on US Letter or A4, and enlarges to A1 without softening. Home, classroom, library and tutoring use are all covered by the licence.Read the licence
Where the economics charts come from
These posters summarise. When you need the full account — or the normative text a chart is compressing — start here.
- FRED economic data — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Primary series for any figure quoted on a macroeconomics chart.
- IMF data and publications — International Monetary Fund. International accounts, exchange-rate and trade definitions.