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Stacey Jones

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Teaching Professor, Department of Economics

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An economic historian, I teach courses on economic inequality and statistics and conduct research on the trajectory of economic inequality and the transformation of women's economic role.

Biography

Stacey Jones is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Economics of the Albers School of Business and Economics at Ï㽶´«Ã½. Her primary research interest is the economic history of the United States, with an emphasis on the trajectory of inequality and the transformation of women’s economic role. She co-authored the book Inequality in America: A Reference Handbook (2023) and teaches courses on economic inequality in the Department of Economics and in the University Honors Program. She also teaches courses on statistics and is a coauthor of Understanding Business Statistics (2014). For more than ten years, her statistics courses incorporated community-based research, conducted in partnership with local farmers markets. Currently, she is editing and writing a book entitled Women and Work: History, Issues, Trends, to be published in 2026. She is a two-time winner of the Albers Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Award (2019, 2022). In 2023, she was awarded the Provost's Faculty Award for Outstanding Service and Institution-Building for Full-Time Term Faculty.

Education

  • PhD, Economics, Stanford University, CA
  • MA, Economics, Stanford University, CA
  • BA, summa cum laude, Philosophy, Carleton College, MN

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Business Statistics (ECON 2100)
  • Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics (ECON 3100)
  • Economic Inequality (ECON 4910)
  • The Measurement of Inequality (HONR 2320)
  • Statistics for Policy Analysis (HONR 2360)

Publications

  • Learning From a Laureate: Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow. 2023. The American Economist 68(2), 295-300.
  • Income Inequality in America: A Reference Handbook. With Robert Rycroft. 2023. ABC-CLIO.
  • The History of Income Inequality in America. With Cameron Hub. 2020. In K. Kinsley and R. Rycroft (eds.) Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences. ABC-CLIO.
  • To "Taste Internally": Ignatian Pedagogy and Service Learning at the Farmers Market. With Kristi Lee, Jennifer Tilghman-Havens, and Michael Saito. 2019. Journal of Jesuit Business Education.
  • Labor Unions and the Creation of the Middle Class. 2016. In R. Rycroft (ed.) The American Middle Class: An Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty.
  • Teaching Real-World Applications of Business Statistics Using Communication to Scaffold Learning. With Gareth Green and John Bean. 2015. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly 78.3: 314-335.
  • Understanding Business Statistics. With Ned Freed and Tim Bergquist. 2014. John Wiley and Sons.