
Highlights From The Comments On British Economic Decline
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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UK GDP Per Capita in Current US Dollars
The UK is smack bang in the middle of the pack, sandwiched between France and Germany. So what's going on? I asked about this in an open thread, here were some of your responses. Eric Rolle writes: The relationship between PPP and market exchange rates for Britain have been highly unstable in the period in question. And tariffs and COVID disruption have both radically changed the availability and prices of imported goods. Looking at either the PPP or market exchange rate numbers, everyone took a big hit in 2020,. While Britain appears to have taken a deeper hit than France and the overall OECD average.
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