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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.
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...
Who Was William Beveridge? The Beveridge Report In December 1942, William Beveridge published a report that was officially called Social Insurance and Allied Services, but it swiftly became known as the Beveridge Report.
William Beveridge (1879-1963) was a social economist who in November 1942 published a report titled, 'Social Insurance and Allied Services' that would provide the blueprint for social policy in post-war Britain.
Jun 11, 2018 · The English economist and social reformer William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (1879-1963), authored the Beveridge Report, which advocated cradle-to-grave social security legislation in Great Britain following World War II.
William Beveridge in 1943. 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]