I was born in London on 30 August 1913, the only child of Gilbert and Elsie Stone. My school days were spent first at Cliveden Place Preparatory School and then at Westminster School, which I attended from 1926 to 1930. At Westminster, I was on the classical side: my father, who was a barrister, destined…

Presentation Speech by Professor Erik Lundberg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Economic reality as it appears in the course of the year can be regarded as innumerable transactions (billions and billions of them) between buyers and sellers. Methods of systematic summary and aggregation have to…

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18 October 1984 THIS YEAR’S PRIZE IN ECONOMICS AWARDED FOR PIONEERING WORK IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS has decided to award the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor Sir Richard Stone, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national…

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  Presentation Speech by Professor Karl-Göran Mäler of the has decided to Royal Academy of Sciences Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s prize in economics has been awarded for contributions to a topic which lies at the very core of the science, the theory of general…

I was born in 1921 in Calais, France, the son of Camille Debreu and Fernande (née Decharne) Debreu. My father was the business partner of my maternal grandfather in lace manufacturing, a traditional industry in Calais. My paternal grandfather managed, until his retirement, the printing plant he had created in the small town of Marquise…

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I was born in Renton, a suburb of Seattle, Washington, in 1911. I was the only child of Joseph and Elizabeth Stigler, who had separately migrated to the United States at the end of the 19th century, my father from Bavaria and my mother from what was then Austria-Hungary (and her mother was in fact…

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