Richard Stone

Richard Stone
Stone in 1984
Born(1913-08-30)30 August 1913
London, England
Died6 December 1991(1991-12-06) (aged 78)
Cambridge, England
Children1
Academic career
FieldEconomics
InstitutionCambridge University
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
Doctoral
students
James Mirrlees
Angus Deaton
InfluencesJames Meade
Colin Clark
ContributionsNational accounts, input-output
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1984)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone CBE FBA (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College and King's College at the University of Cambridge. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale.