Interesting Map: Countries whose GDP Matches Individual US States’

Econ professor Mark Perry, University of Michigan, has on his site this map of the United States. Instead of state names, the name of a nation whose gross domestic product (GDP) is equal to that state’s.

I came to this by way of the sidebar in Coyote Blog, to Houston’s Clear Thinker’s post.

The Value of Money: What’s a Millionaire?

By way of Cafe Hayek, to Division of Labor’s “From ABBA to Led Zeppelin, Led: Using Music to Teach Economics“, here is a Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator. How much money would it have taken in 1961 to be a millionaire in today’s dollars?