# Teaching Economics and Providing Visual "Big Pictures"

**Authors:** Seyyed Ali Zeytoon Nejad Moosavian  
**arXiv:** [1601.01771](https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01771)  
**Date:** 2016-01-08  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/en/paper/1601.01771v1/

## Key points

- The paper examines the significance of using visual "big pictures" in teaching economics
- Visual representations can effectively reduce confusion among students
- A practical example is presented, which is a "big picture" resource for intermediate macroeconomics classes
- The resource displays twenty-seven commonly discussed macroeconomic diagrams on one piece of paper
- The focus is on demonstrating the pathways and links between these diagrams, leading to general macroeconomic equilibrium
- Providing students with this visual tool aims to help them comprehend the overall picture and understand relationships between economic concepts.

## Summary

This paper by Seyyed Ali Zeytoon Nejad Moosavian examines the significance of supplying visual "big pictures" in the teaching of economics. The complexity and variety of concepts, variables, diagrams and models in economics can often befuddle students. However, existing literature indicates that using visual representations that illustrate the links between these various concepts can effectively reduce this confusion. As a practical example, the author presents a "big picture" resource for intermediate macroeconomics classes. This resource displays twenty-seven commonly discussed macroeconomic diagrams on one piece of paper, providing an overview of how these diagrams are interconnected. The main focus is on demonstrating the pathways through which these common diagrams in macroeconomics link to each other, ultimately leading to the graphical representation of general macroeconomic equilibrium. By providing students with this visual tool, it is hoped that they will be able to comprehend the overall picture and better understand the relationships between different economic concepts.