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The concept periphery has been popularized in sociology, political economy, history, and comparative literature to illustrate the complex long-term and unequal relationships with core zones, undercutting methodological nationalism, as well as theories focused on development and modernization. Especially, world system analysis has attempted to broaden the appeal of this concept in a wide variety of disciplines from the 1970s on.

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  1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA

    Eric Mielants

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  1. Dept. of Economics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

    Matias Vernengo

  2. Economic Development Division, Economic Commission for Latin America an, Santiago, RM - Santiago, Chile

    Esteban Perez Caldentey

  3. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

    Barkley J. Rosser Jr

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  1. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

    Matías Vernengo

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Mielants, E. (2021). Periphery. In: Vernengo, M., Caldentey, E.P., Rosser Jr, B.J. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1395-2

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    Periphery
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1395-2

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