If you take inflation into account, what would be the present day value of the Louisiana Territory? Is there a way to calculate the economic and strategic returns of the purchase?

by billpullmanrocks
Wild_Doogy_Plumm

15 million in 1803 dollars is roughly 312,500,000 2014 dollars for the whole thing.

And at 4 cents an acre it would be about 8.33 dollars an acre.

Source: math.