title: Charles I. Jones
text: # Charles I. Jones
  
  Charles "Chad" Irving Jones is STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He studies growth theory and economic development.
  
  ## Education
  
  Jones earned his AB from Harvard University in 1989 and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.
  
  ## Academic contributions
  
  Jones writes extensively on growth theory especially endogenous growth theory to which he contributed, inter alia, in 1995 his Jones model.
  
  He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Books
  
  * Charles I. Jones (2014). Macroeconomics (3rd ed.). Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393923919.
  * Charles I. Jones (2013). Introduction to Economic Growth (3rd ed.). Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393920789.
  