Beveridge Report

… (1942), also known as the Beveridge Report.

…national insurance, based upon the Beveridge Report (prepared by economist William Beveridge and advocating state action to control unemployment, along with the introduction of free health insurance and contributory social insurance) but differing from it in important ways. It regularized the de facto nationalization of public assistance, the old Poor…

…the response to the 1942 Beveridge Report, which became the blueprint of what was later to be called the welfare state. After 1945 a decisive shift had taken place toward the recognition of state intervention and planning as the norm, not the exception, and toward the idea that society could…

…social insurance, and the 1943 Beveridge Report (prepared by the British economist William Beveridge) developed it even further to provide a basic income for all in need of such protection, in addition to providing comprehensive medical care. The concept has continued to broaden since that time, and social security has…

…the basis of the report Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) by Sir William (later Lord) Beveridge. In the 20th century, as the earlier concept of the passive laissez-faire state was gradually abandoned, almost all states sought to provide at least some of the measures of social insurance associated with…