Nationality American Role Professor Name Jean Shackelford | Field Feminist economics Education University of Kentucky | |
Full Name Jean A. Shackelford Institution Bucknell University, Lewisburg, central Pennsylvania, USA Books Economics: a tool for understanding society | ||
Alma mater University of Kentucky | ||
Jean A. Shackelford (born 1946), is the professor of economics emerita in the department of economics at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, central Pennsylvania, US and, from 1993 to 1995, was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Her book Economics: a tool for critically understanding society, co-written with Tom Riddell, Stephen C. Stamos and Geoffrey Schneider, is now in its ninth edition.
Her research interests are: the history of economic thought; economic pedagogy; and, economics and technology.
Education
Jean Shackleford received her degree from Kansas State University in 1967. Her masters, in 1968, and her doctorate, in 1974, were both from the University of Kentucky. All three qualifications were for economics.