Ray Rees was a distinguished economist whose intellectual clarity and civil demeanor left a lasting legacy across generations of students and scholars. Born into a working-class family in Port Talbot, Wales, he rose to academic prominence with degrees from the LSE. He held professorial posts at Queen Mary, Cardiff, Guelph, and Munich, contributing influential work in industrial organization, agency theory, insurance, and especially household economics, in collaboration with Patricia Apps. His elegant models reshaped how economists understand intra-household decision-making. Renowned as a brilliant teacher, Ray brought economic intuition to life, blending formal rigor with accessibility. He co-authored the respected textbooks Microeconomics Ray Rees was a distinguished economist whose intellectual clarity and civil demeanor left a lasting legacy across generations of students and scholars. Born into a working-class family in Port Talbot, Wales, he rose to academic prominence with degrees from the LSE. He held professorial posts at Queen Mary, Cardiff, Guelph, and Munich, contributing influential work in industrial organization, agency theory, insurance, and especially household economics, in collaboration with Patricia Apps. His elegant models reshaped how economists understand intra-household decision-making. Renowned as a brilliant teacher, Ray brought economic intuition to life, blending formal rigor with accessibility. He co-authored the respected textbooks Microeconomics and Mathematics for Economics, and charmed readers with his long-running “Letter from Germany” essays. A sharp yet generous seminar presence, he was admired for his wit, humanity, and humility. He is remembered not only as a rigorous thinker and passionate educator but also as a kind and gracious person....more
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