William Henry Beveridge summary 29 11 21

Name Institutional Affiliations Date Summary of Beveridge life as a social reformer Background Information of Beveridge Beveridge studied mathematics, classic and law at Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was influenced by Fabian Society Socialist and became the best economist among them. His credibility as an economist/socialist remains defined through his early works on unemployment (1903-09) and his in-depth historical study on wages and prices in 1939 (Dimand, 2019). It is the Fabians who appointed him the director of London School of Economics a position that he held for 18 years giving him an exposure on all economics related dynamics (Dimand, 2019). He was the eldest son of a judge in the Indian Civil Service. He wrote about social services to express his interest in the subject from 1905-08 for the Morning Post newspaper. He worked as a social worker at Toynbee Hall from 1903-05 and met Beatrice Webb who introduced him to Winston Churchill. His interest in social services grew with his appointment as the Board of Trade advisor where he used his position to help organize the implementation of national system of labor exchanges. By 1909 he was appointed as the Director of Labor Exchanges with his social service ideas influencing figures like Llyod George. The government started taking action to combat poverty after his advice to Lloyd on old age pension and Nation