Nancy Stokey

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Nancy Stokey is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago; she has a doctorate from Harvard University 1978 and has authored many papers on economic history (such as:

"A Quantitative Model of the British Industrial Revolution: 1780-1850," 2001) and
on econometrics ("Dynamic Programming with Homogeneous Functions," 1998, co-authored with Fernando Alvarez).

She is the co-developer, with Paul Milgrom, of the no-trade theorem, a counter-intuitive development of the premises of financial economics.

She was also a member of the expert panel convened to produce a Copenhagen Consensus on some of the leading scientific/developmental problems of the 21st century.

She is married to Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas, Jr..