Was William Beveridge a Socialist?
Like Keynes, Whose Name Is Also So Often Now Invoked, Beveridge Was Not a Socialist at All but a Lifelong Liberal. in 1944 He Left Oxford to Become a Liberal...
Like Keynes, whose name is also so often now invoked, Beveridge was not a socialist at all but a lifelong Liberal. In 1944 he left Oxford to become a Liberal MP, believing quite wrongly that a great Liberal revival was in the offing. ... Beveridge detested the expression "welfare state".
Who was William Beveridge and what did he do?
William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (born March 5, 1879, Rangpur, India—died March 16, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), 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 ...
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What is William Beveridge known for?
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.
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