| Karl A. Fox | |
| Birth Date: | July 14, 1917 |
| Birth Place: | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Death Place: | Ames, Iowa |
| Nationality: | American |
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| Alma Mater: | University of California, Berkeley University of Utah |
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]
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fox attended the University of Utah, earning a BA degree in English in 1937 andan 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.