death_date birth_place awards birth_date article_title name occupation
27 february 2004 wolseley , saskatchewan order of canada order of manitoba 5 may 1917 clarence barber
 clarence lyle barber economist and academic
clarence barber

clarence lyle barber , -lrb- may 5 , 1917 -- february 27 , 2004 -rrb- was a canadian economist and academic .
born in wolseley , saskatchewan , he received a b.a. in economics from the university of saskatchewan in 1939 .
he won a scholarship to clark university where he obtained his m.a. in 1941 and he received a ph.d. in 1952 from the university of minnesota .
he taught economics at the university of manitoba from 1949 to 1982 and served as head of the department from 1963 to 1972 .
affects of the great depression in his youth motivated barber to study economics -lsb- http://www.rsc.ca/documents/barberclarenceelectedin197719172004.pdf] .
in 1978 , barber wrote '' `` on the causes of the great depression '' '' where he made a link between demographics and economics .
he cited how demand for housing in the u.s. began to drop beginning in 1926 .
early in 1929 , demand for housing dropped precipitously .
the stock market crash in october of that same year was preceded by a decline in demand , barber argues , that began with a lower formation of households concomitant with lower rates of marriage .
after world war i , a birth dearth had resulted ; a dearth that demographers have shown did not end until world war ii ended .
-lrb- see causes of the great depression -rrb- the death of young men as soldiers in world war i , coupled with the flu pandemic of 1918 wrought their eventual harm to the economy as a whole .
the increase in secularization during the ` roaring twenties ' , as automobiles became widespread , and availability of electricity and electrical appliances and such , may have had its effect too .
barber showed in '' `` on causes ... '' '' that lower demand for mortgages and other loans preceded by some years a shortage of loan availability as the great depression deepened towards 1933 .
after the winnipeg flood of 1950 , he was economic adviser and director of research for the manitoba royal commission flood cost-benefit from 1957 to 1959 .
the result of which led to the construction of the red river floodway .
in 1987 , he was made an officer of the order of canada .
in 2001 , he was awarded the order of manitoba .
in 1947 , he married anne patchet .
they had four children : paul , stephen , david , and alan .
from 1982 to 1985 clarence served on the royal commission on economic union and development prospects for canada , more commonly known as the macdonald commission .
it was on this commission where he argued for free trade with the united states .
