Karl A. Fox

Karl August Fox (July 14, 1917 – April 20, 2008) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Iowa State University from 1955 to 1987.[1] During 1954–55, he was senior staff economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.[2] In 1961 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3]

Karl A. Fox
Born(1917-07-14)July 14, 1917
Salt Lake City, Utah
DiedApril 20, 2008(2008-04-20) (aged 90)
Ames, Iowa
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionIowa State University
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Utah

Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fox attended the University of Utah, earning a BA degree in English in 1937 and an MA in Sociology in 1938. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1954, with a dissertation on the demand for farm products, resulting from research conducted at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.[4][5]

His father was Feramorz Y. Fox.

References
  1. https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/fox/
  2. "Memorial: Karl A. Fox" (PDF).
  3. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
  4. Fox, Karl A. (1953). "The Demand for Farm Products: An Appraisal of the Applicability of Single Equation Methods to Statistical Demand Analysis for Agricultural Commodities". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 35 (5): 1008–1009. doi:10.2307/1233297. JSTOR 1233297.
  5. Fox, Karl A. (1953). "The Analysis of Demand for Farm Products". Technical Bulletin. United States Department of Agriculture. No. 1081. OCLC 9722414.


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