Why Internet/GDP Ratios Make No Sense

On Monday, the Economist reprinted a chart from a BCG report, which purported to show the contribution of "the internet" to the total GDP of various different countries. All of this was rather puzzling to me, so I spoke to BCG?s Paul Zwillenberg, one of the authors of the report. And the main thing I wanted to know, of course, was how on earth you could turn ?the internet? into an annual dollar amount divisible by national GDP.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-salmon-net-gdp-ratios/

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