W. H. Beveridge biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of W. H. Beveridge

Author Name:

W. H. Beveridge

Born As:

William Henry Beveridge

Other Names:

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge

Born:

5 Mar 1879

Died:

16 Mar 1963




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Economist                          
Selected works:

Unemployment: A problem of industry - 1909
Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century - 1939
Social Insurance and Allied Services - 1942 - Beveridge Report - excerpts available from Modern History Sourcebook
Full Employment in a Free Society - 1944
The Economics of Full Employment - 1944
Why I am a Liberal - 1945
Plan for Britain: A Collection of Essays prepared for the Fabian Society by G D H Cole - Aneurin Bevan - Jim Griffiths - L F Easterbrook - Sir William Beveridge - and Harold J Laski - Not illustrated, with 127 text pages.                          
Mother Annette Susannah Akroyd 
Father Henry Beveridge                          
In 1908, considered to be the United Kingdom's leading authority on unemployment insurance, he joined the Board of Trade, and helped organize the implementation of the national system of labour exchanges.