British economist William Beveridge is particularly noted for the Beveridge Plan, a blueprint for social security that was adopted by the House of Commons in 1944. For his work, Beveridge was ...

The economist Sir William Beveridge gives details of his radical plans for economic and social reform in post-war Britain. He proposes major social changes on the basis that we need "the abolition ...

William Beveridge's report published in 1942 has been seen as laying the foundations for the welfare state. Beveridge's papers are at LSE and this includes a wealth of materials which deal ...

Amidst the emergency of World War Two, in 1942 the social reformer Sir William Beveridge proposed a wide-ranging bipartisan agenda for welfare reform that offered glimpses of a brighter domestic ...

In 1942, Sir William Beveridge, a prominent government economist, was commissioned to write a report on social policy to advise how Britain should rebuild after World War Two. In his report ...

Beveridge 2.0 by James Rattee/LSE In 1942 former LSE Director William Beveridge launched his blueprint for a British universal care system, ‘from the cradle to the grave.’ Some 75 years on, LSE ...

William Beveridge declared that those who cannot work should be maintained by public support. The condition, however, would be the “complete and permanent ...