[2] Wilcox was born in Cuba, New York, and obtained his B.S.
Before going to Swarthmore, Wilcox taught at Lafayette, Ohio Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania.
Two of his most important works are: Competition and Monopoly in American Industry and Toward Social Welfare.
After his first wife died in 1954,[5] he remarried, to Marcia Lincoln Wallace.
He died in 1970, aged 72 years, while traveling in Tucson, Arizona.