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Norman Lee died on August 1.
The Editor has received several tributes to Norman; some are published below.
Peter Maunder writes:
I knew Norman best through his input to the textbook An Introduction to Industrial Economics, first published in 1974. He was one of four authors of a book described in the Economic Journal as "arguably the best text presently available, certainly for Industrial Economics students but also perhaps for Applied Economics courses". The text was very wellreceived and four editions appeared in the following eleven years.
Norman's Presidential Address at the then Economics Association's annual conference in 1985 "Economics education: where should we go from here?" reflected his abiding interest in economics education. He was editor of the first two editions of Teaching Economics. In that role he influenced many of us who became teachers of Economics. He was indeed a 'founding father' of modern economics teaching and of what is now the EBEA.
Malcolm Bradbury writes:
Norman Lee took up post at the Manchester College of Commerce in 1961, the year in which I became a student on the London University B.Sc. (Econ) external degree course run by that college, which is now part of Manchester Metropolitan University.
Our intake of about 25 students included a number of Nigerian students, a fact that came to have some bearing on Norman's life thereafter. Norman taught courses in the Principles of Economics and Applied Economics during the first two years of the degree. During the third year he taught what we would now call Industrial Economics, and the Economics of Labour...