Richard Jones (1790 - 26 January 1855) was an English economist.

Born at Tunbridge Wells, the son of a solicitor, he was intended for the legal profession, and was educated at Caius College, Cambridge. Owing to ill-health, he abandoned the idea of the law and took orders soon after leaving Cambridge. For several years he held curacies in Sussex and Kent. In 1833 he was appointed professor of political economy at King's College London, resigning this post in 1835 to succeed T. R. Malthus in the chair of political economy and history at the East India College at Haileybury. He took an active part in the commutation of tithes in 1836 and showed great ability as a tithe commissioner, an office which he filled till 1851. He was for some time, also, a charity commissioner. He died at Haileybury, shortly after he had resigned his professorship, on the 26th of January 1855.

In 1831 Jones published his Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation, his most important work. In it he showed himself a thorough-going critic of the Ricardian system.

Along with Charles Babbage, Adolphe Quetelet, William Whewell and Thomas Malthus, Jones was instrumental in founding the London Statistical Society (later "Royal Statistical Society").

Jones's method is inductive; his conclusions are founded on a wide observation of contemporary facts, aided by the study of history. The world he professed to study was not an imaginary world, inhabited by abstract "economic men," but the real world with the different forms which the ownership and cultivation of land, and, in general, the conditions of production and distribution, assume at different times and places. His recognition of such different systems of life in communities occupying different stages in the progress of civilization led to his proposal of what he called a "political economy of nations." This was a protest against the practice of taking the exceptional state of facts which exists, and is indeed only partially realized, in a small corner of our planet as representing the uniform type of human societies, and ignoring the effects of the early history and special development of each community as influencing its economic phenomena.

Jones is remarkable for his freedom from exaggeration and one-sided statement; thus, whilst holding Malthus in, perhaps, undue esteem, he declines to accept the proposition that an increase of the means of subsistence is necessarily followed by an increase of population; and he maintains what is undoubtedly true, that with the growth of population, in all well-governed and prosperous states, the command over food, instead of diminishing, increases.

:For the United Tasmania Group green politician, see Richard Jones (Tasmanian politician).

Richard Stanley Leigh Jones (born 16 February 1940) is a former member of the NSW Legislative Council from 13 March 1988 to 28 February 2003.

Born in Epsom, Surrey, England, he emigrated to Australia in 1965. He joined the Australia Party in 1971 and later the Australian Democrats, and was elected twice to the parliament as a Democrats candidate. He left the party in 1996 whilst still a sitting member and turned Independent, after endorsing Australian Labor Party candidates in the 1996 Federal election.

He was the first convenor of Friends of the Earth Australia and assisted in the founding of Greenpeace in Australia blank">http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Interviews/Interview%20with%20Richard%20Jones%20MLC.htm. During his time in parliament, he voiced concern abount environmental issues, including destruction of sand dunes at _Myall Lakes.

Beyond his dedication to green politics and animal rights issues, he was also a vigorous proponent of alternative medicine; speaking several times in parliament in favour of homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine.

Richard Andrew Jones (born 22 October 1973 in Auckland) is a cricketer. He started well, captaining the New Zealand Under-19s cricket team in 1993/4. He went on to represent the full senior side in one Test match and five One Day Internationals. Representing Auckland in a match against Wellington, he scored a century - the day before his wedding to Kelly Herbert. He is currently the captain of the Auckland Aces.

Richard H. Jones (born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States in 1950) is the United States Ambassador to Israel. Between February 2005 and September of that year, Jones served as the Secretary of State's Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq policy. Jones served as the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait from 2001 to 2004, U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1998 to 2000, and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon from 1996 to 1998.

Richard H. Jones, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was sworn in as Ambassador to Israel by Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick on September 6, 2005. Mr. Jones had been serving as the Secretary of State's Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy (S/I) since February 2005, where he was the highest-ranking State Department official focused entirely on Iraq policy. In that capacity, Mr. Jones chaired an Under Secretary-level interagency steering group charged with reviewing and developing Iraq policy. He also led U.S. diplomatic efforts on Iraq with the international community. In this regard, he managed U.S. preparations for the June 22, 2005 Iraq International Conference in Brussels, Belgium. This unprecedented event gathered together more than 80 high-level delegations, including some 65 national delegations led by foreign ministers, to pledge political support for Iraq and its newly elected democratic government.

Prior to assuming his duties as S/I, Mr. Jones served as U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait from September 2001 until July 2004. From November 2003 until June 2004, he served concurrently as Chief Policy Officer and Deputy Administrator for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad. In Kuwait, Mr. Jones focused his efforts on enlisting active Kuwaiti support for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. As Deputy Administrator of the CPA, he worked directly with Ambassador L. Paul Bremer to implement the November 15, 2003 agreement with the Iraqi Governing Council. Among their accomplishments were the successful adoption of a new law to govern Iraq during the transitional period, the formation of an Iraqi interim government, and the restoration of sovereignty ahead of schedule. He won State Department and other U.S. Government awards for his performance in both positions.

Mr. Jones has also served as U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan (from December 1998 until July 2001) and as U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (from February 1996 until July 1998. Previous postings include Director of the State Department's Office of Egyptian Affairs (1993-95) and Director of its Division of Developed Country Trade (1987-89). He was twice posted to the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and has served in Paris and Tunis. After Kuwait, Mr. Jones also served as a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government from September 2004 until January 2005. He has received U.S. Government awards for his work as Ambassador to Kazakhstan and as Ambassador to Lebanon, for performance during the Gulf War, and for contributions to commercial and trade negotiations.

Born on August 26, 1950, at Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana, Mr. Jones has Masters and Doctoral degrees in Business/Statistics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. His foreign languages are Arabic, French, German, and Russian. He has been awarded two U.S. patents and served two terms on the board of the Saudi Arabian International School in Riyadh. He enjoys hiking and bicycling, as well as winter and racquet sports.

Mr. Jones married Joan Wiener in 1973 and has four children; Josh (1977), Vera (1980), Ben (1991), and Hope (1992).

:For the NSW Democrat and independent politician, see Richard Jones, MLA.

Dr. Richard Jones (1936 - 1986) was one of the co-founders of the United Tasmania Group (UTG), the world's first Green party and the predecessor of the Tasmanian Greens. He was the first president of the UTG, through the early and middle 1970s.blank">http://wopared.aph.gov.au/Hansard/senate/dailys/ds210397.pdf He helped form the Centre for Environmental Studies Unit at the _University of Tasmania and was active in transforming the Australian Conservation Foundation from an apolitical to a political force.http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/files%5Ccommittees/catalogue_compressed.pdf

Richard Jones (born 23 May, 1974) is the bassist and backing vocalist for the popular Welsh rock band Stereophonics, playing alongside Kelly Jones (no relation) and Javier Weyler.

Jones grew up in Cwmaman, an old mining village in south Wales. Richard originally formed the band with Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable (former drummer of Stereophonics), playing under different band names like Silent Runner and Tragic Love company. Richard played to his largest audience on July 2 2005 as the group appeared at the Live 8 concert, in Hyde Park, London.

Richard Jones is bassist with British band The Feeling.

Jones attended the BRIT School in Croydon. He is married to pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor, with whom he has a child, Sonny, born in April 2004. He toured with Sophie to promote her album Read My Lips.

Jones cites Paul McCartney and John Deacon among his influences. He also admires Jaco Pastorius and James Jamerson for their "technicality".

Richard Jones (born 7 June, 1953) is a British freelance opera and theatre director.

Richard Alan Jones (born 6 November, 1986 in Stourbridge) is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Worcestershire and at club level for Old Hill.

Jones was educated at King Edward VI College in Stourbridge and Loughborough University. He played for Worcestershire's Second XI as early as August 2004 (when he was 17) and appeared a number of times for them in 2005 and 2006. He was included on the England Under-19 tour to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in 2005-06.

In late April 2007, after several matches in Worcestershire's pre-season warm-up games, he made his first-class debut against Loughborough UCCE at Worcester, taking four wickets in the match.