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Richard Stone's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts
The Compassionate Idealist
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist. The birth-card coordinate for August 30 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1984 Economic Sciences prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1984 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis
1984 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
“for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis”
No one else in this set holds the 1984 Economic Sciences prize; Richard Stone appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1.
93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 9 of Hearts coordinate
Richard Stone's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Richard Stone. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.
Richard Stone in the public record
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. Richard Stone was born in London on 30 August 1913. He received an English upper middle class education when he was a child as he attended Cliveden Place and Westminster School. However, he had not been taught mathematics and science until secondary school. When he was 17 years old, he followed his father to India as his father was appointed as a judge in Madras. From India, he visited many Asian countries: Malaya, Singapore, and Indonesia. After travelling for one year, he went back to London and then matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1931, where he studied law for two years.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Richard Stone (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 of Diamonds
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Richard Stone, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Richard Stone's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Analytical thinking about financial decisions
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: economist.
Also on the record
- The young Stone then changed to studying economics.
- He was interested in economics as he thought that "if there were more economists, the world would be a better place".
- During the Great Slump of the 1930s, unemployment was very high and this motivated him to know what caused it and how to overcome it.
- He faced a challenge from his parents as they were disappointed with his choice.
Other laureates with this card
- E. M. Purcell — 1952 Physics
- Ernest Rutherford — 1908 Chemistry
- Frank B. Kellogg — 1929 Peace
- Henri Moissan — 1906 Chemistry
- Jacobus H. van 't Hoff — 1901 Chemistry
- Keffer Hartline — 1967 Physiology or Medicine
- Lars Peter Hansen — 2013 Economic Sciences
- M. Stanley Whittingham — 2019 Chemistry
- Simon van der Meer — 1984 Physics
- The Svedberg — 1926 Chemistry
- Thomas C. Südhof — 2013 Physiology or Medicine
- Tsung-Dao Lee — 1957 Physics
FAQ
- What is Richard Stone's birth card?
- The 9 of Hearts. August 30 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Richard Stone's dates come from?
- Birth date 1913-08-30 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 698) + Wikidata CC0 (Q219733) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Richard Stone). Birth date 1913-08-30 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).