William Beveridge
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. His 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services served as the basis for the welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.
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- Born in
- Rangpur
- Educated at
- University College, OxfordBalliol CollegeCharterhouse School
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux🏆 honorary doctor of the University of New Zealand
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Trending topics shown first"Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Wan…"
"Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of th…"
"The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else."
"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."
"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens."
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1879
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