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Michael Rock
Harvey Wexler ProfessorPhone: ext. 5179
Office: Dalton 210
Office Hours: M/ W 1:00-2:00 or by appointment
mrock@brynmawr.edu
Michael T. Rock is the Harvey Wexler Professor of Economics at Bryn Mawr College, USA. His published research focuses on the environment and development and the role of industrial policy in the second tier newly industrializing economies of Southeast Asia.
His work has appeared in World Development, Development Policy Review, Ecological Economics, the Journal of Environment and Development, Local Environment, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, the Journal of International Development, Competition and Change ,the American Behavioral Scientist, and Studies in Comparative International Development.
His most recent books include one published by Oxford University Press titled Industrial Transformation in the Developing World which focuses on policy integration in developing East Asia or the integration of industrial technological upgrading policies with industrial environmental improvement policies and a second jointly published by Resources for the Future and the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies titled Pollution Control in East Asia which examines the degree to which governments in north and southeast Asia have built effective command and control environmental agencies and integrated them with the institutions of industrial policy.
Rock's research has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. His current research on the energy and pollution intensity of the pulp and paper and cement industries in China and India is funded by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of the Government of Japan.
Rock is currently working on two books. One focuses on the political economy of development policies in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand and the impact of democratization on the ability of governments in these economies to sustain pro-growth political coalitions. The other examines the degree to which multinational corporate wide environmental standards are contributing to environmental improvements in the developing country firms and economies with which and in which multinationals operate.
Rock has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Bennington College, the University of Denver, and Hood College. He received his B.S. from Duquesne University and his M.A. and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.
Courses
- Economics 105: Introduction to Economics
- Economics 234: Economics of Development
- Economics 385: Democracy and Development