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Clifford Clark (April 18, 1889 – December 27, 1952) was a Canadian professor, economist and civil servant. He earned his M.A. from Queen's University receiving honours in Latin, French, English, History and Political and Economic Science and did graduate studies in economics with F. W. Taussig at Harvard. He returned to teach at Queen's in 1915 were he became the first head of the Commerce program in 1919. In 1921, Clark left to work for American investment firm S. W. Straus and Company, returning to Queen's after the company went bankrupt in the Great Depression. At the instigation of Oscar D. Skelton, Clark wrote a well-received memorandum on monetary policy for the 1932 British Empire Economic Conference in Ottawa. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed Deputy Minister in the Department of Finance by R. B. Bennett, a position he held until his death in 1952. As deputy minister, he helped to establish the Bank of Canada in 1934, chaired the WWII Economic Advisory Committee, and helped convince Mackenzie King to adopt the 1944 Family Allowance Bill. ==Works== * 1918: (with Eric Walter Zimmerman) (Foreign Trade and Shipping ), volume 15 in Modern Business series of Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York, link from Internet Archive. * In ''Bulletin of the Department of History and Political Science'' at Queen’s University: * * 1916: The country elevator in the Canadian West * * 1918: Should maximum prices be fixed? * * 1921: Business cycles and the depression of 1920-1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clifford Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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