Minimalist Economics Posters

NPR's Planet Money made up some posters illustrating economic concepts, minimalist propaganda style. Then they had readers submit designs. Here is the latest (and best) round: minimalist econ posters by actual economists.

The winner:

 

Click though for the inevitable invisible hand humor.

Comments

[Xenocles]

Looks like one of the artists has read The Black Swan.

[sloopyinca]

BLACK SWAN WAS A GREAT MOVIE STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN

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[sloopyinca]

STOP IT LOOSER

[Trespassers W]

I learned a lot about economics by looking at this poster. It's full of truths both subtle AND obscure.

[Appalachian Australian]

"Forecasting" is quite apropos.

[Paul]

Just looking at the winning poster, I take it this is a healthcare poster.

The 'stick' on the left would be the kind of crutch that the government would supply in a single-payer system, the carrot represents the government-mandated healthful food demanded by Michele Obama.

[tgs]

too abstract for the proles to comprehend, let alone the political class

[rxc]

If you don't start eating more carrots, we will beat you with this stick.

[shrike]

A.B.U.

[Terrorific]

I love how threatening to beat someone with a stick is considered an incentive in Newspeak.

[Almanian]

More evidence of the stick-on-carrot violence so prevalent in society today.

It's a shame, really

[Almanian]

Plus, why is the carrot engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation? What does sexualizing the carrot have to do with the stick-on-carrot violence so prevalent in society?

[Appalachian Australian]

The Violence Against Vegetables act will provide incentives at the federal level to end centuries of abuse of tubers at the hands of privileged limbs.

[Appalachian Australian]

Why is the steamroller operator impaling his eye socket with a baseball bat?

Did NPR commission Payne to draw these?

[P Brooks]

The union steamroller driver who drinks on the job is an authentic American hero, right?

[P Brooks]

The teddy bear has too much self-respect to hang himself for the national Socialists at NPR.

The carrot was the best they could do on short notice.

[Davey Jones]

I think its time to hit it up JB, oh yeah!

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