Rate My Professor Harry Bloch

Harry Bloch is the John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Economics in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance within Curtin University's Curtin Business School, part of the Business & Economics faculty. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan and both an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, completed in 1971. Bloch joined Curtin University in 1997 as Professor of Economics, where he served as Head of the School of Economics for three years and Acting Head of the School of Economics and Finance in 2000. He founded and directed the Centre for Research in Applied Economics from 2006 to 2009, and in 2012 acted as Dean for Research and Development in the Curtin Business School. Prior to Curtin, he held academic positions at the University of Tasmania from 1985 to 1997, as well as at the University of Denver, University of Manitoba from 1973 to 1975, University of British Columbia, and Illinois Institute of Technology. Appointed John Curtin Distinguished Professor in 2010 and Emeritus Professor in 2013, his career reflects extensive leadership in economic research and administration.

Bloch's research specializations encompass industrial organization, international trade, development economics, and the history of economic thought, with a focus on competition's effects on innovation, productivity, and pricing through an evolutionary lens. He has authored over 100 academic journal articles, more than two dozen book chapters, edited two books, and written two sole-authored books: Schumpeter's Price Theory and Evolutionary Price Theory. Notable publications include 'Determinants of Innovation' (2004), 'Economies of Scale and Scope in Australian Telecommunications' (2001), 'The Language of Pluralism from the History of the Theory of Price Determination' (2022), and 'Price Theory, Historically Considered: Smith, Ricardo, Marshall and Beyond' (2020). His scholarship has earned over 6,000 citations on Google Scholar. Bloch is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and an Honorary Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. He edited the Economic Record from 2002 to 2006, served on the Australian Research Council College of Experts for the Social, Behavioural and Economics panel from 2008 to 2010 and the Laureates Selection Advisory Committee in 2013, and was President of the Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch) from 2005 to 2008. These contributions underscore his profound influence on the economics discipline.