{"id":94409,"date":"2026-07-30T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=94409"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:18:54","slug":"infographic-the-household-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/30\/infographic-the-household-analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: The household analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-94410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-household-analogy-v2-cream-550x825.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-household-analogy-v2-cream-550x825.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-household-analogy-v2-cream-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-household-analogy-v2-cream-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-household-analogy-v2-cream-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-household-analogy-v2-cream.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth in this series of infographics on the basics of <a class=\"glossary\" title=\"Defined in glossary\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/glossary\/E\/#economics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the series are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/26\/what-is-ecnomics\/#gsc.tab=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/27\/infographic-microeconomics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microeconomics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/28\/infofraphic-macroeconomics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macroeconomics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/29\/infographic-political-economy\/#gsc.tab=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political economy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to expand this image<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you press CTRL or Command and Plus (+) on your keyboard, your browser should increase the size of your page every time you do this. Press CTRL or Command and the Zero (0) key together to restore the screen to normal. I can get to at least 2 times the normal size by doing this.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to download this image.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you right-click the image, you should be given the option to download it to your computer. So long as you do so without a view to making a profit, you may do so without further permission. Commercial use requires consent. But if you just want to share it, do so with whoever and wherever you want. That is the purpose of these infographics.<br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<b>The image library<\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nWe are planning a library of these images. It will be available soon.<\/p>\n<p><b>AI use.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In some way or other, I used AI in the creation of this post. I disclose how I\u00a0<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/26\/my-use-of-ai\/\">use that technology here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpulike wpulike-heart \" data-ulike-initialized=\"true\">\n<div class=\"wp_ulike_general_class wp_ulike_is_not_liked\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fifth in this series of infographics on the basics of economics. Others in the series are: Economics Microeconomics Macroeconomics Political economy How<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/30\/infographic-the-household-analogy\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,240,174,224,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-images","category-modern-monetary-theory","category-neoliberalism","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94411,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94409\/revisions\/94411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}