Harriet Bloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 219986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Bloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4288-6925 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evolutionary Price Theory
Economic evolution involves structural change from within, so evolutionary price theory needs to address how prices facilitate and accommodate this structural change and how structural change in turn impacts on prices. Such analysis is impossible using neoclassical price theory in which endowments of inputs, production technology and consumer preferences are all treated as exogenously determined and the future is known or at least its probability…
Long waves of economic growth in Asia and Western Europe, 1950-2020: Are there any circular-cumulative causation and contradiction aspects
This paper discusses some comparative analysis between the pattern of economic performances in Asia and Western Europe during 1950s-2020s through political economies perspective. The Asian and Western European economic performances are investigated through some stylized facts in the sense of economic factors. Three analyses are used to explain the general pattern of these regions. First, this study examines the pattern of GDP growth per capita du…
Revisiting ‘Pricing and the Investment Decision’
‘Pricing and the Investment Decision’, written with Peter Kenyon and published in Kyklos in 1976 contributes to post-Keynesian economics by analysing the determination of the mark-up of price over unit cost by large oligopolistic firms. Mark-ups are set to provide sufficient retained earnings under expected future conditions to finance the level of the firm’s planned investment expenditure. This provides a causal link at the microeconomic level f…
Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers and Productivity Growth in Indonesian Garment and Electronics Manufacturing
Inflows of foreign direct investment generate externalities that spill over to domestic firms and raise their productivity. This article examines the extent of spillover effects of foreign direct investment for firms in the highly disaggregated garment (ISIC 3221) and electronics industries (ISIC 3832) in Indonesia. Both are export-intensive industries, but differ greatly in technological sophistication and labour intensity. Changes in both the p…
The Impact of Technical Change and Profit on Investment in Australian Manufacturing
This paper combines W.E.G. Salter's analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki's analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a Post Keynesian model of investment with process innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. The approach to process innovation taken in this study is to identify new capital stock introduced through physical investment, which results in the older vin…
Research Evaluation Down Under: An Outsider's View from the Inside of the Australian Approach
Australia is currently undertaking its first national evaluation of university research, which is being performed by the Australian Research Council (ARC) at the request of the Australian government. The Australian approach to evaluation has some unique characteristics, especially a focus on evaluating research quantity and quality by the field of the research activity rather than by individual academic or administrative unit. This raises issues …
Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead to Productivity Spillovers? Firm Level Evidence from Indonesia
Steindl on Imperfect Competition: The Role of Technical Change
Josef Steindl offers an innovative dynamic analysis of competition in Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism , with a key role for technical change. However, in his later writings he suggests that he had not gone far enough and that his account was not ‘sufficiently dynamic’, noting particularly his neglect of fundamental issues in technological development. Here, we critically examine the nature of technical change in Steindl’s analysis,…
Deep determinants of economic growth: Institutions, geography and openness to trade
In our first progress report, Bloch and Tang (2001), we examined the importance of the ‘Solow residual’, or total factor productivity growth (TFPG), in the process of economic growth, particularly in the context of the East Asian economic growth ‘miracle’. We demonstrated that while TFPG has been less important in explaining growth in East Asia than in the advanced industrial economies, it still has played an important role in the susceptibility …
The role of financial development in economic growth
In our previous progress report (Bloch and Tang, 2001), we review the literature relating to the role of technical change and productivity growth in East Asian economic growth. The topic of economic growth is central to development economics. Growth is one of the (if not the) major engine of improvements in living standards in the developing countries. Much recent work has addressed the potential links between financial development and economic g…
The role of technical change and productivity growth in East Asian economic growth
Some estimates of Prebisch and Singer effects on the terms of trade between primary producers and manufacturers
Changing Domestic Roles among Polish Immigrant Women
In an effort to locate some of the main areas of continuity and change, this paper examines one aspect of the process of migration, the domestic role of women, in an agricultural village in southern Poland and among emigrants from this same village, now living in a Polish-American community in New Jersey, U.S.A. In the village there exists a striking equality between husband and wife. This is because: (1) the complex economic functions of women m…
Advertising and Profitability: A Reappraisal
The New York City Negro and Occupational Eviction 1860–1910
It is the basic contention of this paper that intensification of Negro occupational eviction from 1860–1910 imposed another limitation on the Negro in addition to “job ceiling”. The term job ceiling, logically, connotes a prescribed set of trades or occupations, restricted exclusively to a group with ascribed social and economic status, and offers almost no upgrading. Negro eviction from the trades adds another restriction to his already low stat…
Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead to Productivity Spillovers? Firm Level Evidence from Indonesia
Research Evaluation Down Under: An Outsider's View from the Inside of the Australian Approach
Australia is currently undertaking its first national evaluation of university research, which is being performed by the Australian Research Council (ARC) at the request of the Australian government. The Australian approach to evaluation has some unique characteristics, especially a focus on evaluating research quantity and quality by the field of the research activity rather than by individual academic or administrative unit. This raises issues …
Changing Domestic Roles among Polish Immigrant Women
In an effort to locate some of the main areas of continuity and change, this paper examines one aspect of the process of migration, the domestic role of women, in an agricultural village in southern Poland and among emigrants from this same village, now living in a Polish-American community in New Jersey, U.S.A. In the village there exists a striking equality between husband and wife. This is because: (1) the complex economic functions of women m…
The role of technical change and productivity growth in East Asian economic growth
Some estimates of Prebisch and Singer effects on the terms of trade between primary producers and manufacturers
Revisiting ‘Pricing and the Investment Decision’
‘Pricing and the Investment Decision’, written with Peter Kenyon and published in Kyklos in 1976 contributes to post-Keynesian economics by analysing the determination of the mark-up of price over unit cost by large oligopolistic firms. Mark-ups are set to provide sufficient retained earnings under expected future conditions to finance the level of the firm’s planned investment expenditure. This provides a causal link at the microeconomic level f…
Deep determinants of economic growth: Institutions, geography and openness to trade
In our first progress report, Bloch and Tang (2001), we examined the importance of the ‘Solow residual’, or total factor productivity growth (TFPG), in the process of economic growth, particularly in the context of the East Asian economic growth ‘miracle’. We demonstrated that while TFPG has been less important in explaining growth in East Asia than in the advanced industrial economies, it still has played an important role in the susceptibility …
The role of financial development in economic growth
In our previous progress report (Bloch and Tang, 2001), we review the literature relating to the role of technical change and productivity growth in East Asian economic growth. The topic of economic growth is central to development economics. Growth is one of the (if not the) major engine of improvements in living standards in the developing countries. Much recent work has addressed the potential links between financial development and economic g…
Advertising and Profitability: A Reappraisal
The New York City Negro and Occupational Eviction 1860–1910
It is the basic contention of this paper that intensification of Negro occupational eviction from 1860–1910 imposed another limitation on the Negro in addition to “job ceiling”. The term job ceiling, logically, connotes a prescribed set of trades or occupations, restricted exclusively to a group with ascribed social and economic status, and offers almost no upgrading. Negro eviction from the trades adds another restriction to his already low stat…
The New York City Negro and Occupational Eviction 1860–1910
It is the basic contention of this paper that intensification of Negro occupational eviction from 1860–1910 imposed another limitation on the Negro in addition to “job ceiling”. The term job ceiling, logically, connotes a prescribed set of trades or occupations, restricted exclusively to a group with ascribed social and economic status, and offers almost no upgrading. Negro eviction from the trades adds another restriction to his already low stat…
Advertising and Profitability: A Reappraisal
Changing Domestic Roles among Polish Immigrant Women
In an effort to locate some of the main areas of continuity and change, this paper examines one aspect of the process of migration, the domestic role of women, in an agricultural village in southern Poland and among emigrants from this same village, now living in a Polish-American community in New Jersey, U.S.A. In the village there exists a striking equality between husband and wife. This is because: (1) the complex economic functions of women m…
Some estimates of Prebisch and Singer effects on the terms of trade between primary producers and manufacturers
The role of technical change and productivity growth in East Asian economic growth
The role of financial development in economic growth
In our previous progress report (Bloch and Tang, 2001), we review the literature relating to the role of technical change and productivity growth in East Asian economic growth. The topic of economic growth is central to development economics. Growth is one of the (if not the) major engine of improvements in living standards in the developing countries. Much recent work has addressed the potential links between financial development and economic g…
Deep determinants of economic growth: Institutions, geography and openness to trade
In our first progress report, Bloch and Tang (2001), we examined the importance of the ‘Solow residual’, or total factor productivity growth (TFPG), in the process of economic growth, particularly in the context of the East Asian economic growth ‘miracle’. We demonstrated that while TFPG has been less important in explaining growth in East Asia than in the advanced industrial economies, it still has played an important role in the susceptibility …
Steindl on Imperfect Competition: The Role of Technical Change
Josef Steindl offers an innovative dynamic analysis of competition in Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism , with a key role for technical change. However, in his later writings he suggests that he had not gone far enough and that his account was not ‘sufficiently dynamic’, noting particularly his neglect of fundamental issues in technological development. Here, we critically examine the nature of technical change in Steindl’s analysis,…
Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead to Productivity Spillovers? Firm Level Evidence from Indonesia
Research Evaluation Down Under: An Outsider's View from the Inside of the Australian Approach
Australia is currently undertaking its first national evaluation of university research, which is being performed by the Australian Research Council (ARC) at the request of the Australian government. The Australian approach to evaluation has some unique characteristics, especially a focus on evaluating research quantity and quality by the field of the research activity rather than by individual academic or administrative unit. This raises issues …
The Impact of Technical Change and Profit on Investment in Australian Manufacturing
This paper combines W.E.G. Salter's analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki's analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a Post Keynesian model of investment with process innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. The approach to process innovation taken in this study is to identify new capital stock introduced through physical investment, which results in the older vin…
Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers and Productivity Growth in Indonesian Garment and Electronics Manufacturing
Inflows of foreign direct investment generate externalities that spill over to domestic firms and raise their productivity. This article examines the extent of spillover effects of foreign direct investment for firms in the highly disaggregated garment (ISIC 3221) and electronics industries (ISIC 3832) in Indonesia. Both are export-intensive industries, but differ greatly in technological sophistication and labour intensity. Changes in both the p…
Revisiting ‘Pricing and the Investment Decision’
‘Pricing and the Investment Decision’, written with Peter Kenyon and published in Kyklos in 1976 contributes to post-Keynesian economics by analysing the determination of the mark-up of price over unit cost by large oligopolistic firms. Mark-ups are set to provide sufficient retained earnings under expected future conditions to finance the level of the firm’s planned investment expenditure. This provides a causal link at the microeconomic level f…
Long waves of economic growth in Asia and Western Europe, 1950-2020: Are there any circular-cumulative causation and contradiction aspects
This paper discusses some comparative analysis between the pattern of economic performances in Asia and Western Europe during 1950s-2020s through political economies perspective. The Asian and Western European economic performances are investigated through some stylized facts in the sense of economic factors. Three analyses are used to explain the general pattern of these regions. First, this study examines the pattern of GDP growth per capita du…
Evolutionary Price Theory
Economic evolution involves structural change from within, so evolutionary price theory needs to address how prices facilitate and accommodate this structural change and how structural change in turn impacts on prices. Such analysis is impossible using neoclassical price theory in which endowments of inputs, production technology and consumer preferences are all treated as exogenously determined and the future is known or at least its probability…
Economics (13 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (6 works) · Macroeconomics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Productivity (4 works) · Business (3 works)