Autobiography

Richard Stone

No 1984-2, Nobel Prize in Economics documents from Nobel Prize Committee

Abstract: 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 me for the law, and for this, a classical education was deemed indispensable. As a result, I learnt little mathematics beyond elementary arithmetic, algebra and geometry and was rather bored. I expect I could have had a more interesting education if I had shown more interest in what I was taught, but as a boy, my passion was model-building; not mathematical models but models of trains and boats, an activity in which my father was a skilled and enthusiastic collaborator.

Keywords: national accounts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 pages
Date: 1985
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