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William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, KCB (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal politician who was a progressive, social reformer, and eugenicist who played a central role in designing the British welfare state.
The Beveridge Report, officially entitled Social Insurance and Allied Services (Cmd. 6404), [1] is a government report, published in November 1942, influential in the founding of the welfare state in the United Kingdom. [2]
Aug 8, 2024 · William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (born March 5, 1879, Rangpur, India—died March 16, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an economist who helped shape Britain’s post-World War II welfare state policies and institutions through his Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942), also known as the Beveridge Report.
William Beveridge was born on 5 March 1879 in Bengal, India, where his father was a judge in the Indian Civil Service. He trained a lawyer but came to prominence during the Liberal...
William Henry Beveridge was born in Bengal (Bangladesh) in 1879. His father was a judge in the Indian Civil Service. William was himself a lawyer having been educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford.
Sep 25, 1997 · This book explores Beveridge's life—the young social worker at Toynbee Hall; the ‘New Liberal’ reformer in Edwardian Whitehall; the stormy director of the London School of Economics; and the ‘People's William’ of the reconstruction movement after the Second World War.
Jul 11, 2019 · William Beveridge made at least three significant contributions to economics. Regarding his contributions to modern economic analysis, Beveridge set out a coherent diagnosis of industrial fluctuations based on empirical data and the latest theories on trade cycles....
William Henry Beveridge – economist and one of Britain’s most famous social reformers – was born in March 1879 in Rangpur (British India) as the eldest son of Henry Beveridge, an Indian civil service officer.
Jan 1, 2016 · Beveridge is chiefly remembered as a social and administrative reformer, whose Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) set out the basic principles and structure of the postwar welfare state. Paradoxically, however, he thought of himself chiefly as an academic...
William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, was a British economist and Liberal politician who was a progressive, social reformer, and eugenicist who played a central role in designing the British welfare state.
