James B. Stewart (born 1947) is an American economist who is professor emeritus of Labor and Employment Relations, African and African American Studies, and Management and Organization at Pennsylvania State University.
He studied math at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, where he was one of only 5 Black students in a student body of 1,000, and later earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame.
[3] Stewart taught at Penn State from 1980 to 2009,[4] while writing or co-authoring 11 books and 65 articles in Economics and Black Studies.
[5] He is a past president of the National Economic Association,[6] the National Council for Black Studies, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
[7] He is a former editor of The Review of Black Political Economy.