DAVID K. FOOT
 David K. Foot, Professor
of Economics at the University of Toronto, is co-author of the bestselling books Boom
Bust & Echo 2000: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the New Millennium and Boom
Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift (with Daniel
Stoffman, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1998, 1996). These books reflect his current
research interests which lie in the numerous relationships between economics and
demographics and in the resulting implications for both private and public policies,
especially in the Canadian context.
Following his undergraduate degree in Australia and his doctorate
in economics from Harvard University, Professor Foot’s research involved analysis and
projections of the Canadian economy. Subsequently, he focused on Canada’s declining
population growth and associated population aging as one of the fundamental and often
neglected determinants of the challenges to economic performance and policy.
His research has resulted in contributions to a variety of special
fields such as marketing, human resource planning, corporate organization, saving and
investing, housing, education, recreation and leisure, unemployment, migration, government
expenditures, and intergovernmental relations. A number of these themes are explored in
two of his previously published books, Canada’s Population Outlook: Demographic
Futures and Economic Challenges (1982) and, with Blossom T. Wigdor, The Over Forty
Society (1988).
In addition to academic writings and contributions to professional
journals and to the popular media, Professor Foot’s work in the area of public policy
has included research and submissions to many provincial and federal government
commissions and numerous consulting and conference assignments for both public and private
organizations.
He is a two-time recipient (in 1983 and 1992) of the University of
Toronto undergraduate teaching award, and in 1992 received one of the Society for Teaching
and Learning in Higher Education’s 3M Awards for Teaching Excellence, which
recognizes outstanding Canadian university educators.
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