英国剑桥大学已退休的财务和会计学教授理查德·斯通由于首创国民帐户体系而被瑞典皇家科学院授予1984年度的诺贝尔经济学奖,这使他成为这项奖金自1969年创立以来22位获奖者中的第四个英国经济学家,也是第一个单独获得该奖的英国人①。斯通1913年生于伦敦,是曾任法官的吉尔伯特·斯通爵士的独子,所以他从威斯敏斯特公学毕业后就进入剑桥大学,攻读法学,但入校后却对经济学发生兴趣,遂改读经济学并于 Richard Stone, a retired professor of finance and accounting at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for 1984 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his first national accounts system, making him the winner since its founding in 1969 The fourth British economist among the winners was the first Brit to win the prize alone. Born in London in 1913, Sir Stone was the only son of Sir Gilbert Stone, a former judge, so he graduated from the Westminster School to enter Cambridge and study law, but after entering school, Interest, then read economics and at