Re:Why I love the Detroit startup scene
by jordache on Saturday May 20, 2017 @10:50PM
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for the most part, outside of the major cities, the rest of the state is not generating much gdp
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But there are major cities in those states not included in his Diamond. Most notably: Philadelphia, Springfield, Peoria, Lansing, MI, Grand Rapids, Mich, etc
Re:Why I love the Detroit startup scene
by santaclaus on Saturday May 20, 2017 @11:19PM
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Philly isn't in the Midwest, hell, it's almost in the Atlantic!
That was his point. The article said that a region it outlines has an economy bigger than California. But adding up the GDP [1] of all the states that overlap that region gives an economy about the size of California's.
Philly is in a state that overlaps the region, but is not in the region. Hence, adding up the state GDPs overestimates the GDP of the region by at least the GDP of Philly.
[1] technically, I believe it is actually called the GSP (Gross State Product) in this case.