David K. Foot, Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, is co-author of the best-selling book Boom, Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift.  This book reflects his current research interests which lie in the numerous interrelationships 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 specific fields such as marketing, human resource planning and 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).