Nancy Stokey is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Her doctorate is from Harvard University 1978.

She 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 thje 21st century.