Sidney Lewis Jones (born September 23, 1933) is an American economist and former official in the United States federal government.

A Republican, he has held strong views during his career about controlling inflation and federal government spending but was nonetheless well regarded as an economist across the political spectrum.

He spent a significant portion of his childhood in California, where his father earned a doctorate in bacteriology at Stanford University.

For the next 24 years he moved in and out of government, serving a number of senior economic policy roles and taking research and teaching appointments in between these stints.

[2] This list is drawn from biographical information on Jones from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum[9] and the record of the Senate confirmation hearing for his second term as Assistant Treasury Secretary.

[9] For a time after his appointment as Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, he was a senior adviser to the Government Research Corporation.

[2] In 1983, two of Ronald Reagan's most senior aides disagreed over how to reduce the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 1985.

He praised Carter's choices for economic advisers, including Charles Schultze, W. Michael Blumenthal, and Bert Lance, despite disagreeing with many of their policy views.