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Richard Stone
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British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner (1913-1991)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1913-08-30 ) 30 August 1913, London, England
- Died
- 6 December 1991 (1991-12-06) (aged 78), Cambridge, England
- Alma mater
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge , King's College, Cambridge
- Influences
- James Meade , Colin Clark
- Discipline
- Economics
- Institutions
- Cambridge University
- Doctoral students
- James Mirrlees , Angus Deaton
- Notable ideas
- National accounts , input-output
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1984)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1984
“for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Stone
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- researcher
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Field of work
- economics
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1913-08-30
- date of death
- 1991-12-06
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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