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.
[3] 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.