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 | July 14, 1917 |
| Died | April 20, 2008 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | Iowa State University |
| Alma mater | University 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
edit- ^ "Karl A. Fox".
- ^ "Memorial: Karl A. Fox" (PDF).
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fox, Karl A. (1953). "The Analysis of Demand for Farm Products". Technical Bulletin. 1081. United States Department of Agriculture. OCLC 9722414.
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