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Where does periphery collide?

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periphery2 CONSTRUCTSWorld peripheryPREBISCH · DEPENDENT ZONECore-periphery netBORGATTI · CORE-PERIPHERY

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Development economics and sociology

The dependent zone of the world economy

In development economics the periphery is the group of poorer, commodity-exporting economies whose growth is shaped by, and held subordinate to, a wealthier industrial centre. Prebisch's 1950 The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems introduced the centre-periphery pairing, arguing that the gains from trade and technical progress accrued mainly to the industrial centre while the periphery supplied raw materials on worsening terms. Wallerstein's 1974 account of the modern world-system carried the idea further, treating core, periphery, and semi-periphery as positions in a single capitalist division of labour. Here the periphery is a class of national economies defined by their place in a global hierarchy, not a part of a network and not a region of the body.[1][2]

Unit
A national economy classed by its position in the global division of labour
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by trade structure, terms of trade, income level, and export composition

Network science

The sparsely tied part of a network

In network science the periphery is the loosely connected remainder of a network that surrounds a dense, mutually tied core. Borgatti and Everett's 2000 Models of core/periphery structures gave the arrangement a formal definition and a way to fit it, partitioning the nodes so that core members connect heavily to one another while peripheral members connect mainly to the core and little to each other. The periphery here is a set of nodes picked out by their pattern of ties within one graph, measured on connection data, and it has nothing to do with a nation's place in world trade or the outlying tissue of a body.[3]

Unit
A set of nodes assigned to the sparsely tied part of a single network
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by fitting a core-periphery model to a network's adjacency matrix and scoring each node's coreness

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References

  1. Prebisch, R. (1950). The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems. United Nations, Department of Economic Affairs.
  2. Wallerstein, I. (1974). The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system: Concepts for comparative analysis. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 16(4), 387–415. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500007520
  3. Borgatti, S. P., & Everett, M. G. (2000). Models of core/periphery structures. Social Networks, 21(4), 375–395. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8733(99)00019-2

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