A GALLERY OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES

Structures of World Trade

The structure of world trade of between 28 OECD countries in 1981 and 1992. The size of the nodes gives the volume of flows  in dollars (imports and exports) for each country . The size of the links stands for the volume of trade between any two countries. Colors give the regional respectively memberships in different trade organisations: EC countries (yellow), EFTA countries (green), USA and Canada (blue), Japan (red), East Asian Countries (pink), Oceania (Australia , New Zealand) (black).

• World Trade in 1981
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  Trade among OECD Countries in 1981

  
  

  • World Trade in 1992
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    Trade among OECD Countries in 1992
    

    Structure of trade in 1992 for the same OECD countries as above . The trade volume is deflatet to allow a direct comparison to the 1982 solution .
    

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• International Division of Labor and Global Economic Processes: An Analysis of the International Trade of Cars with World Trade Data ... a structural view .. coauthored with Thomas Plümper, University of Konstanz. The final version is available from the Journal of World Systems Analysis <http://csf.colorado.edu/jwsr/archive/vol5/vol5_number3/index.shtml>
  
  
• An improved version  of a coauthored paper with Thomas Plümper:  "Exploring the Dynamics of International Trade by Combining the Comparative Advantages of Multivariate Statistics and Network Visualizations"  is avaiblable from the Journal of Social Structure (JOSS) http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume4/KrempelPlumper.html(vol 4, no1, February 3, 2003)  It  also contains additional interactive SVG graphics.
  

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