[lbo-talk] ooops

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

At 8:05 pm -0400 21/6/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
>[Sorry, I screwed up and copied from the wrong spreadsheet - GDP per 
>capita in 1995 U.S. dollars converted at market exchange rates. 
>Here's what I'd promised, GDP per capita at purchasing power parity 
>exchange rates. Ok, so the EU is as poor as Mississippi, though that 
>sure isn't the way it seems. We have more Hummers, for sure.]

Doug,

Can we have the comparisons for US states?

But while this is "fun", it really doesn't mean one hell of a lot for 
the countries clustered around the top -- although at the wider 
margins it speaks to the issues of power and wealth in the world. 
Thus, while French, trying to live in the US at the PPP GDP/cap of 
France, would not be having it too good, doing so in France has a 
different cast to it. We do need some other measures of inter-country 
comparisons at the mean that better capture the standard and quality 
of life, especially for the block of countries that fall within 25% 
of the US GDP/cap. HDI tries to do this to some extent, but while the 
intention is great, I'm not too sure about the execution. Perhaps a 
HDI and a humans security index (HSI?) in combination -- as HDI does 
already take into account GDP/cap?

kj khoo