Welcome to a new segment on Weakonomics (You don’t think I have too many do you?). I call it the “Weakonomics Tour of the Country.” You can gather what we are doing with this. Each post will feature a different state of the nation’s fifty. In order to establish a guideline on which state is next (and follow a somewhat geographic path) the states will come in order of being admitted to the Union. This means the original 13 colonies would be first and the final 2 will be Alaska and Hawaii.
Each post will follow the same basic principle. They will all include nicknames that I have created. Most are based on what I’ve learned about each economy, some are just because it’s what came to me. The rest of the post will mostly talk about their economic situation, both past and present. Sometimes I may talk about the history of the state, if it is especially pertinent to where the state is today.
When Weakonomics first started early last year, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to talk about. As time went on, Weakonomics developed into a machine of education. No this isn’t a substitute for any other way to learn, it’s a compliment to what has been taught in schools and what you read about today. Weakonomics is a tool to help you learn more about money. The Tour of the Country is meant to teach you (and me) more about the country we live in. So few of us know much about the country beyond where we’ve lived. My readers in Texas don’t know much about Connecticut and my readers in Georgia don’t really understand what is going on in Oregon. It is my hope that by learning about the other states in this fine country, we begin to understand where everyone is coming from.
This is not a research paper and I am not spending hours researching each state. I freely admit I am using Wikipedia liberally in compiling my posts. If you have a problem with Wikipedia, you shouldn’t be reading my site anyway, so get lost. Most of you don’t so come with me on this journey as we learn more about the country.
I’m kicking off the tour with the first five states this week. Then the posts will be intermittent like my other Weakonomics segments. If I had time to do more than one post a day I’d promise to finish by the end of 2009, but I can’t make that promise.
As a teaser, here is a map of the US labeled by countries with similar GDPs.
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