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Stacey Jones
Teaching Professor, Department of Economics
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 Seattle University. 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.