What is Richard Stone?
{{nobelprize|Economics}} {{Infobox economist | name = Richard Stone | school_tradition = | color = | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1913|8|30}} | birth_place = [[London]], [[England]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1991|12|6|1913|8|30}} | death_place = [[Cambridge]], England | nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]] | institution = [[Cambridge University]] | field = [[Economics]] | alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] | contributions = [[National accounts]], [[Input-output model|input-output]] | awards = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (1984) | repec_prefix = | repec_id = }} '''Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone''' (30 August 1913 &ndash; 6 December 1991) was a [[British people|British]] economist. He won the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] in 1984. ==Early life== Stone was born on 30 August 1913 in [[London]], [[England]]. He studied at the [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. ==Career== In 1984, Stone received the Nobel Prize in Economics. He won the Nobel Prize for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale. He is sometimes known as the 'father of national income accounting', and is the author of studies of consumer [[demand]] statistics and demand modeling, [[economic growth]], and [[Input-output model|input-output]].<ref>[http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v8p469y1985.pdf Counter-intuitively, the most cited of Richard Stone's works were his publications on consumer demand statistics and modeling. See Eugene Garfield: The 1984 Nobel Prizes in Economics and Literature are Awarded to Sir Richard Stone for Pioneering Systems of National Accounting and to Jaroslav Seifert, the National Poet of Czechoslovakia. ]</ref> ==Personal life== Stone was married to Winifred Mary Jenkins from 1936 until they divorced in 1940. Then he was married to Feodora Leontino