Early Career
Clark was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He studied at Amherst College, graduating in 1905, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1910. He was an Instructor at Colorado College (1908–1910) and at Amherst College (1910–1915). In 1915 he joined the faculty of political economy at the University of Chicago. He accept a professorship at Columbia in 1926, where he remained until he retired in 1957.
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