Glenn Fox

Glenn Fox and an agricultural and natural resource economist, has been a member of the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph since 1985 and served as acting department chairman from 2001-2002. His research interests include property rights and natural resource stewardship, regulatory takings, trade and environment, technological change, and transaction costs. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute.

Professor Fox previously taught economics at the University of Western Ontario. He completed a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota in 1985.

Education:

B.Sc (Agr), Guelph , 1977
M.Sc. Guelph, 1979
Ph.D. Minnesota , 1985

Research:

Methodology, Property Rights and Natural Resource Stewardship, Regulatory Takings, Economic Theories of the Firm, Austrian Economics, Technological Change, Trade and Environment, Transaction Costs, Competition Policy.

Teaching Interests:

Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Methodology.

Select Publications:

Brouwer, F., Fox, G., & Jongeneel, R. (2012). The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture: Compliance with Public and Private Standards. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Rajsic, P., Fox, G., & Ramlal, E. (2012). “Canadian Agricultural Environmental Policy: from the right to farm to farming right.” In Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox and Roel Jongeneel (Eds.), The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture: Compliance with Public and Private Standards (pp. 55–78). Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Brouwer, F., Fox, G., & Jongeneel, R. (2012). “Introduction.” In Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox and Roel Jongeneel (Eds.),The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture: Compliance with Public and Private Standards (pp. 1–8). Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Jongeneel, R., Poux, X., & Fox, G. (2012). “Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions in the EU and Their Implications for Trade in Cereals.” In Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox and Roel Jongeneel (Eds.), The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture: Compliance with Public and Private Standards (pp. 147–164). Wallingford, UK: CABIPublishing. Fox, G. & Brouwer, F. (2012). “Environmental Compliance Costs in Developed Country Agricultures: Implications for Trade and Competitiveness.” In Floor Brouwer, Glenn Fox and Roel Jongeneel (Eds.), The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture: Compliance with Public and Private Standards (pp. 263–274). Wallingford, UK: CABI. Fox, G. (2012). “The Origins, Nature and Content of the Right to Property: Five Economic Solitudes.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 60 (1), 11–32.