mathewingram.com/work » gdp http://www.mathewingram.com/work ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:34:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 What’s the GDP of Harry Potter? http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/07/06/whats-the-gdp-of-harry-potter/ http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/07/06/whats-the-gdp-of-harry-potter/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:40:25 +0000 Mathew http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/07/06/whats-the-gdp-of-harry-potter/

from Paul Kedrosky comes this interesting factoid:

  • economic value of Harry Potter (books and movies): $7.2-billion
  • gross domestic product of Afghanistan: $7.2-billion

Of course, as a commenter notes on Paul’s blog, the Afghan number would be significantly higher if revenue from the heroin trade were included.

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