Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Gross Municipal Product

I had speculated there must have been data like this before, just couldn't find it.

I do like how cities of just 10 million people have GDP's greater than countries with hundreds of millions of people. Also notice which countries these all hail from;

CAPIALIST ONES!!!! (Except Paris)

4 comments:

  1. Megadittoes from a DBA/Performance Analyst (not artist!). Our city's domestic product is the grossest!

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  2. Its not the Capitalism that does it, its the long-term secure ownership of property. The wealthy parts of the world are the places that have had secure ownership of property for at least 50 years.

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  3. Anonymous2:49 AM

    Captain: You must go to Freakonomics Blog and check out A Real-Estate Roller Coaster! It's my entry for best graph. Keep my $15 and spend it on a babe and buy her a chocolate martini.

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  4. Richard,

    Good point, but isn't private property one of the key tenets of capitalism?

    Anon,

    Sorry, you're too late, we already posted it!

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