David Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Commonwealth Education Trust |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2453-2090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Eisler, Hanns (USA)
Comprehensive assessment instruments for place-based sustainable agriculture
A rapid transformation to sustainable agricultural production systems is necessary, requiring on-farm monitoring and measurements of key agricultural sustainability indicators. While many assessment methods for agricultural sustainability incorporate a three-pillar model of sustainability: environment, economic, and social, a step beyond this is required to support both human and planetary health. This review takes the position that a more nuance…
Longevity risk and capital markets
This special issue of the Journal of Demographic Economics contains 10 contributions to the academic literature all dealing with longevity risk and capital markets. Draft versions of the papers were presented at Longevity 16: The Sixteenth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference that was held in Helsingør near Copenhagen on 13–14 August 2021. It was hosted by PerCent at Copenhagen Business School and the Pensions Ins…
‘Curb sitting’
Law enforcement officers across the country are trained in various tactics and techniques intended to increase the overall safety within a police-citizen contact. One common, albeit controversial tactic is referred to as “curb sitting”. The curb-sitting tactic is generally associated with officers requiring criminal suspects to sit on a curb with their legs outstretched in front of them. The tactic is believed to provide officers additional react…
Timbre
Timbre, the distinctive quality of a particular sound, has become an increasingly critical analytical focus in recent music theory. Yet the sublinguistic nature of timbral cognition and the parameter’s inherent multidimensionality pose significant challenges to description and representation. This chapter examines four main approaches by which theorists have sought to understand timbre and employ it analytically: its ontology as a sonic object; i…
Is Irrigationalism a Dominant Ideology in Securing Hydrotopia in Mekong Nation States
For over six decades, grandiose proposals calling for significant expansion of public irrigation schemes have been commonplace throughout the Mekong region, irrespective of the political configuration or developmental stage of each state. From Pol Pot’s Democratic Kampuchea to Thailand’s military and quasi-democratic regimes, irrigation has figured prominently on development agendas. Mainstream narratives around irrigation are embedded in a techn…
Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a "Best Practice" Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most significantly to rural socio-ecological change, due to the profound socio-political ruptures dams precipitate. The nationally iconic Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Project, commissioned in 1998 and expanded in 2012, provides an illustrative case of hydropower’s complex social-ecolog…
King Bhumibol
The present Thai monarch’s reputation in matters hydrological is an integral element of the mythology and symbolism that have characterised his reign. Royalists have carefully constructed the king as a semi-deified “Father of Thai Water Management”, “Royal Rainmaker”, wise inventor of hydraulic technology and planner of “royal initiatives” over a period of six decades. Yet, despite the links that are often drawn between water resources control, s…
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy
This article uses longevity fan charts to represent the uncertainty in projections of future life expectancy. These fan charts are based on a mortality model calibrated on mortality data for English and Welsh males. The fan charts indicate strong upward sloping trends in future life expectancy. Their widths indicate the extent of uncertainty in these projections, and this uncertainty increases as the forecast horizon lengthens. Allowing for uncer…
What is a Promise from the Government Worth? Quantifying Political Risk in State and Personal Pension Schemes in the United Kingdom
There are three key types of political risk facing pension schemes: those induced by demographic, economic, and pure political factors. The state scheme in the United Kingdom has been susceptible to all three types since 1980, with the result that the annual real internal rate of return on the second‐pillar state pension for the average male worker fell from 5.1% to 1.5% over 25 years. The flat‐rate, first‐pillar Basic State Pension has also expe…
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility
As a result of population ageing and declining fertility, the UK state pension system is unlikely to continue to be able to deliver the current level of pensions without some combination of a higher state pension age and a steady inflow of young immigrant workers from abroad. However, with prudent economic management and continuing economic growth, the need for additional immigrants can be contained and modest real increases in pensions are also …
Eisler, Hanns
Does it Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have
Journal Article Does it Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? Get access David Blake David Blake Pensions Institute, Birkbeck College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 110, Issue 461, February 2000, Pages F46–F81, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00507 Published: 25 December 2001
Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom
Financial Intermediation and Financial Innovation in a Characteristics Framework
A bstract This paper shows that the characteristics model provides a unifying framework for analysing both financial intermediation and the process of financial innovation. The role of the financial intermediary is to buy‐in the primary liabilities of the firm, unbundle and repackage the characteristics contained in them and issue a set of ultimate assets to households. Assets exist because the balance between the supply of and demand for asset c…
Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom
PART I: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PENSIONS AND PENSION SCHEMES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PART II: PENSIONS AND PENSION SCHEMES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PART III: PENSION FUNDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PART IV: POSTSCRIPT
Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance
Journal Article Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance: An Analysis of Financial Asset Portfolios Held by Investors in the United Kingdom Get access David Blake David Blake Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 438, 1 September 1996, Pages 1175–1192, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235514 Published: 01 September 1996
Researching School-Based Teacher Education
Part 1 Introduction: the policy context for school-based teacher education. Part 2 Issues and processes: crossing academic communities - clarifying the conceptual landscape in initial teacher education benchmarking the competences pedagogical content knowledge - what do mature students bring to teaching? transition to mentoring - issues in primary initial teaching training further professional encounters - students and their school tutors initial…
The newly qualified teacher in school
Initial teacher education (ITE) is a central part of the Government's educational reform programme. The location, structure, control and financing of teacher education are all under review, based upon the Government's belief that the existing system is unsatisfactory. What is lacking in much debate about ITE, however, is authoritative evidence. This article presents an analysis of one such piece of evidence, the report by the Office for Standards…
Africa
Journal Article Africa: A guide to reference material Get access Africa: A guide to reference material, by John McDwaine. Hans Zell Publishers, Oxford, 1993. xxxv+507 . £75.00 hardback. 0 905450 43 4. DAVID BLAKE DAVID BLAKE Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages 143–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfo…
GRIDS’ and the reflective teacher; developing teachers' professionalism through school based review and development
This article takes a critical look at the second edition of the grids handbook. Schemes like GRIDS offer guidelines in school review and school evaluation. The first half of the article looks at the background to the GRIDS scheme and aims to identify areas of theoretical and practical difficulty within them. It also asks what the role of such schemes is in the current educational system. The second half looks at one example where schools, a colle…
The teacher training debate
An intense debate is taking place about the nature and location of teacher training. The debate is set against a background of acute teacher shortages, in some areas of the country and in some subjects, and the development of innovative training schemes such as those for articled and licensed teachers. This article reviews the nature of professional performance and identifies the kinds of training which prepare practitioners for it. It argues tha…
Portfolio Behaviour and Asset Pricing in a Characteristics Framework
We have applied the characteristics model to the problem of portfolio behaviour and asset pricing. By defining assets in terms of characteristics, we generated individual demands for assets which depended on the prices of assets, the technological relationship between assets and asset characteristics, and the individual's preferences for different characteristics. In general, the characteristics model cannot be readily aggregated across individua…
Commonwealth bookshelf
END GAMES OF EMPIRE End of Empire, Brian Lapping, Granada, London, 1985, xviii + 551 pp. POLITICAL PAMPHLETS York University (Ontario) Libraries, Canadian pamphlet collection: catalogue, The University, Toronto, 1984, 3 vols
Commonwealth publications
Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a "Best Practice" Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most significantly to rural socio-ecological change, due to the profound socio-political ruptures dams precipitate. The nationally iconic Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Project, commissioned in 1998 and expanded in 2012, provides an illustrative case of hydropower’s complex social-ecolog…
On The Sustainability of the UK State Pension System in the Light of Population Ageing and Declining Fertility
As a result of population ageing and declining fertility, the UK state pension system is unlikely to continue to be able to deliver the current level of pensions without some combination of a higher state pension age and a steady inflow of young immigrant workers from abroad. However, with prudent economic management and continuing economic growth, the need for additional immigrants can be contained and modest real increases in pensions are also …
Does it Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have
Journal Article Does it Matter What Type of Pension Scheme You Have? Get access David Blake David Blake Pensions Institute, Birkbeck College, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 110, Issue 461, February 2000, Pages F46–F81, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00507 Published: 25 December 2001
King Bhumibol
The present Thai monarch’s reputation in matters hydrological is an integral element of the mythology and symbolism that have characterised his reign. Royalists have carefully constructed the king as a semi-deified “Father of Thai Water Management”, “Royal Rainmaker”, wise inventor of hydraulic technology and planner of “royal initiatives” over a period of six decades. Yet, despite the links that are often drawn between water resources control, s…
Facing up to uncertain life expectancy
This article uses longevity fan charts to represent the uncertainty in projections of future life expectancy. These fan charts are based on a mortality model calibrated on mortality data for English and Welsh males. The fan charts indicate strong upward sloping trends in future life expectancy. Their widths indicate the extent of uncertainty in these projections, and this uncertainty increases as the forecast horizon lengthens. Allowing for uncer…
Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance
Journal Article Efficiency, Risk Aversion and Portfolio Insurance: An Analysis of Financial Asset Portfolios Held by Investors in the United Kingdom Get access David Blake David Blake Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 438, 1 September 1996, Pages 1175–1192, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235514 Published: 01 September 1996
What is a Promise from the Government Worth? Quantifying Political Risk in State and Personal Pension Schemes in the United Kingdom
There are three key types of political risk facing pension schemes: those induced by demographic, economic, and pure political factors. The state scheme in the United Kingdom has been susceptible to all three types since 1980, with the result that the annual real internal rate of return on the second‐pillar state pension for the average male worker fell from 5.1% to 1.5% over 25 years. The flat‐rate, first‐pillar Basic State Pension has also expe…
The newly qualified teacher in school
Initial teacher education (ITE) is a central part of the Government's educational reform programme. The location, structure, control and financing of teacher education are all under review, based upon the Government's belief that the existing system is unsatisfactory. What is lacking in much debate about ITE, however, is authoritative evidence. This article presents an analysis of one such piece of evidence, the report by the Office for Standards…
The teacher training debate
An intense debate is taking place about the nature and location of teacher training. The debate is set against a background of acute teacher shortages, in some areas of the country and in some subjects, and the development of innovative training schemes such as those for articled and licensed teachers. This article reviews the nature of professional performance and identifies the kinds of training which prepare practitioners for it. It argues tha…
The development of the chapter of the diocese of Exeter 1050–1161
At the same time as Bishop Leofric (1046–1072) transferred the seat of his cathedral from Crediton to Exeter in 1050, he introduced the rule of Chrodegang as the basis for the government of his church. The rule itself, therefore, is the best guide to the way the canons lived during Leofric's episcopate. During the episcopates of Leofric's successors (Osbern 1072–1103, William Warelwast 1107–1138, Robert I 1138–1155, Robert II 1155–1160) evidence …
Is Irrigationalism a Dominant Ideology in Securing Hydrotopia in Mekong Nation States
For over six decades, grandiose proposals calling for significant expansion of public irrigation schemes have been commonplace throughout the Mekong region, irrespective of the political configuration or developmental stage of each state. From Pol Pot’s Democratic Kampuchea to Thailand’s military and quasi-democratic regimes, irrigation has figured prominently on development agendas. Mainstream narratives around irrigation are embedded in a techn…
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters
Journal Article The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters Get access David Blake, David Blake City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Beenstock, Michael Beenstock London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Valerie Brasse Valerie Brasse London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Sonata for Piano
Music Today
Instrumental Music
Piano Concerto No 3
Quartets Op 54 and Op 55
Piano Sonatas in E Flat K282, in C K330, in D K576; Rondo in A Min K511
Cinderella Suites Opp 107 and 108
Scherzo No 4 in E; Nocturne in B Op 62 no 1
Five Pieces Op 16
Symphonies
String Quartet in E Minor
Das Lied von der Erde
Chamber Music, Vol 1
Symphony No 9
Violin Concertos
Symphony No 3
Symphony No 8
Symphonies Nos 26, 44 and 48
Revolutionary choral
Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity
Meghnad Desai, David Blake, Modelling the Ultimate Absurdity: A Comment on "A Quantitative Study of the Strategic Arms Race in the Missile Age", The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Nov., 1981), pp. 629-632
The development of the chapter of the diocese of Exeter 1050–1161
At the same time as Bishop Leofric (1046–1072) transferred the seat of his cathedral from Crediton to Exeter in 1050, he introduced the rule of Chrodegang as the basis for the government of his church. The rule itself, therefore, is the best guide to the way the canons lived during Leofric's episcopate. During the episcopates of Leofric's successors (Osbern 1072–1103, William Warelwast 1107–1138, Robert I 1138–1155, Robert II 1155–1160) evidence …
Recent Commonwealth books
POLITICAL PREOCCUPATIONS Transfer and Transformation: Political Institutions in the New Commonwealth: Essays in honour of W. H. Morris‐Jones. Peter Lyon and James Manor, eds, Leicester University Press, 1983, £25
Commonwealth publications
The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters
Journal Article The Performance of UK Exchange Rate Forecasters Get access David Blake, David Blake City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Beenstock, Michael Beenstock London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Valerie Brasse Valerie Brasse London Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Commonwealth bookshelf
END GAMES OF EMPIRE End of Empire, Brian Lapping, Granada, London, 1985, xviii + 551 pp. POLITICAL PAMPHLETS York University (Ontario) Libraries, Canadian pamphlet collection: catalogue, The University, Toronto, 1984, 3 vols
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