The author of the 1942 report ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’, who was the first Director of the London School of Economics, in office from 1919 to 1937?
"William Beveridge William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist who was a noted progressive and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report ""Social Insurance and Allied Services"" (known as the ""Beveridge Report"") which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945. He was considered an authority on unemployment insurance from early in his career, served under Winston Churchill on the Board of Trade as Director of the newly created labour exchanges and later as"
"in Balance"" (1924), ""Empire Restored"" (1927), and the ""Apologia of an Imperialist"" (1929). He died on 17 November 1931, at age 66. William Hewins William Albert Samuel Hewins (11 May 1865 – 17 November 1931) was a British economist and Conservative politician. In 1895, he was appointed by Sidney Webb as the first Director of the London School of Economics, a post he held until 1903. Hewins was the son of Samuel Hewins, an iron merchant. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford University. He graduated with a degree in mathematics and later worked as a"
"their number. He published academic economic works including his early work on unemployment (1909). The Fabians made him a director of the LSE in 1919, a post he retained until 1937. During his time as Director, he jousted with Edwin Cannan and Lionel Robbins, who were trying to steer the LSE away from its Fabian roots. From 1929 he led the International scientific committee on price history, contributing a large historical study, ""Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century"" (1939). In 1933 he helped set up the Academic Assistance Council. This helped prominent academics who"
"became Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Administration and served in this capacity from 1938 to 1944. He then became professor of economic history at the London School of Economics where he served from 1944 to 1954. He was president of both the Manchester Statistical Society (1938–1940) and the Economic History Society (1960–1963). His publications cover the economy of the 18th century and include the iron, steel and coal industries: T. S. Ashton Thomas Southcliffe Ashton (1889–1968) was an English economic historian. He was professor of economic history at the London School of Economics at the University of London"
"practising management, and demonstrate the plurality and diversity of management thought... Alfred John Liversedge Alfred John Liversedge (Huddersfield, 1854 – Croydon, 20 August 1934) was a British engineer, manager, and author, known from the 1889 publication ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts,"" written under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" This work was one of the seminal works in the field of cost accounting. Liversedge came into prominence with the publication of ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts."" in 1889, which he wrote under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" Late 19th century he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He"
"time Major C.H. Douglas, a British engineer and social philosopher, developed a new economic philosophy which he labelled Social Credit. At the heart of the philosophy was a firm belief in the importance of individual freedom, but also that the monetary system had to be changed so that the market system could function properly. In short he combined monetary reform and basic income. The Beveridge report, published in 1942, stated that social insurances should be the main system in society for economic security. Besides that the report also proposed a selective system for those without access to social insurances. Beveridge"
"they died. William Robson details the board changes in his account of the early history of the journal:“J. L. Hammond withdrew in 1933 owing to ill-health. Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders resigned in July 1938 on becoming Director of the London School of Economics, which he felt was incompatible with any political commitment. Sir Theodore Gregory, who lived abroad a great deal, resigned in 1940. Sir Arthur Salter (now Lord Salter) joined the Board in 1932 and resigned in January 1940 when he became a minister. He rejoined in 1948 but left in 1951 on becoming a member of Winston Churchill’s Caretaker"
"of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) ""for services as Director of the London School of Economics"". Alexander Carr-Saunders Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, (14 January 1886 – 6 October 1966) was an English biologist, sociologist, academic, and academic administrator. He was Director of the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1957. Carr-Saunders was born on 14 January 1886 in Reigate, Surrey, England. He was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire. He then studied biology at Magdalen College, specialising in zoology. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class honours Bachelor"
"Alexander Carr-Saunders Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, (14 January 1886 – 6 October 1966) was an English biologist, sociologist, academic, and academic administrator. He was Director of the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1957. Carr-Saunders was born on 14 January 1886 in Reigate, Surrey, England. He was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire. He then studied biology at Magdalen College, specialising in zoology. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1908. Carr-Saunders remained a year at the University of Oxford as a demonstrator"
"From 1917 to 1931, he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics. In 1926 he helped found the Economic History Society with Sir William Ashley, amongst others, and became the joint editor of its journal, ""The Economic History Review"". From 1931 until retirement in 1949, he was a professor of economic history at the LSE and Professor Emeritus after 1949. He was an Honorary Doctor of the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, London, Chicago, Melbourne and Paris. Tawney's historical works reflected his ethical concerns and preoccupations in economic history. He was profoundly interested in the issue of"
"form and at the LSE, notably the prominent social and economic historian, Professor Eileen Power. He fought in World War II, losing a leg in 1940. While convalescing at the Sussex home of Francis W. Hirst, he prepared ""A History of British Tariffs, 1923-42"", which became the standard work on the subject. He was a founder of the Society for Individual Freedom, which met at the Individualist Bookshop. With Sir Ernest Benn, Francis Hirst and Donovan Touche, Abel was co-author of the ""Individualist Manifesto"" (1942), a response to the prevalence of dictatorship in Europe from Spain to the Soviet Union."
"William Hewins William Albert Samuel Hewins (11 May 1865 – 17 November 1931) was a British economist and Conservative politician. In 1895, he was appointed by Sidney Webb as the first Director of the London School of Economics, a post he held until 1903. Hewins was the son of Samuel Hewins, an iron merchant. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford University. He graduated with a degree in mathematics and later worked as a university extension lecturer. Hewins resigned from teaching to work for Joseph Chamberlain and his campaign for tariff reform. He unsuccessfully contested Shipley"
"Alfred John Liversedge Alfred John Liversedge (Huddersfield, 1854 – Croydon, 20 August 1934) was a British engineer, manager, and author, known from the 1889 publication ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts,"" written under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" This work was one of the seminal works in the field of cost accounting. Liversedge came into prominence with the publication of ""Engineering Estimates, Costs and Accounts."" in 1889, which he wrote under the pseudonym ""A general manager."" Late 19th century he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He became editor of ""The Engineering Supplement"" of the ""Daily Mail"" Overseas"
"Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther (13 May 1907 – 5 February 1972) was a British economist, journalist, educationalist and businessman. He was editor of ""The Economist"" from 1938 to 1956. Crowther was born in Headingley, Leeds on 13 May 1907. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Oundle School before gaining a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge to read modern languages, in which he took a first in 1928. He then changed to economics and was awarded an upper first class degree in 1929. He was elected president of the Cambridge Union Society in 1928. Donald"
"As a medical statistician, she compared food prices with wages and rent, the generalisation of statistical correlations on death rates, and mortality rates for cancer and diabetes. Her work during the war remains unpublished, but two posthumous papers concern the effects of higher education on fertility, and the correlation between economic class and child mental development. Her sole-author paper on trends in wages in London 1900-1912 was read before a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society on 18 November 1913, which RSS president F. Y. Edgeworth commented made ""an important contribution to the art of measuring changes in the value"
"Britain where he became a lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics, under a program to assist academic exiles. In 1941, Sir Fred Clarke, Director of the Institute of Education at the University of London, invited him to teach sociology on a part-time basis in conjunction with his declining role at LSE under wartime conditions. In January 1946 he was appointed as the first sociology professor at the Institute of Education, a position he held until his death in London a year later at the age of 53. During his time in England, Mannheim played a prominent role"
"Richard Layard, Baron Layard Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard FBA (born 15 March 1934) is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. His early career focused on how to reduce unemployment and inequality. He was Senior Research Officer for the famous Robbins Committee on Higher Education. This committee's report led to the massive expansion of UK university education in the 1960s and 1970s. Following research on happiness begun in the 1970s by economists such as Richard Easterlin at the University of Southern California, he has"
"Harold Laski Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was a British political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party during 1945–1946, and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950. He first promoted pluralism, emphasising the importance of local voluntary communities such as labour unions. After 1930, he shifted to a Marxist emphasis on class conflict and the need for a workers' revolution, which he hinted might be violent. Laski's position angered Labour leaders who promised a nonviolent"
"(ISER). Jack Wiseman (economist) Jack Wiseman (1919-1991) was a British economist. He is known for being one of the first professors of economics at the University of York and an early scholar of health economics. Wiseman was born in Brierfield, Lancashire in 1919. He joined the Territorial Army in 1939 and fought in the Second World War. Wiseman joined the London School of Economics as a student in 1946, where he later became a lecturer in Business and Public Finance. In 1964, Wiseman joined the University of York, where he was founding Director of the Institute of Social and Economic"
"interdisciplinary Yale Institute of Human Relations he was Director of Unemployment Studies during 1934–39. He was also the main social economist who consulted to the Social Security Board from 1936–39. His first book, ""The Unemployed Man"" (1934), was based on his experiences in England and received praise for his research methods and for the work's depiction of the human effects of unemployment, such as in his quote from one subject: ""With a job there is a future, without a job there is a slow death of all that makes a man ambitious, industrious and glad to live."" The effects highlighted"
"violence, both on those who employ it and those who suffer it.' Morris Ginsberg Morris Ginsberg FBA (14 May 1889 – 31 August 1970) was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of ""The Sociological Review"" in the 1930s and later became the founding chairman of the British Sociological Association in 1951 and its first President (1955–1957). He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943, and helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled ""The Race Question"". He was born in Kelmė, a small town in the"
"Andrew Glyn Andrew John Glyn (30 June 1943 – 22 December 2007) was an English economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxian economist, his research interests focussed on issues of unemployment and inequality. He was Associate Editor of Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was a consultant for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and for the International Labour Organisation. Glyn was born in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire. He was the son of John Glyn, the 6th Baron Wolverton, of the Williams & Glyn's Bank banking dynasty."
"Stella Cunliffe Stella Vivian Cunliffe (12 January 1917 – 20 January 2012) was a British statistician. She was the first female president of the Royal Statistical Society. Cunliffe was educated at Parsons Mead School, Ashtead, Surrey; and at the London School of Economics, where she gained a BSc (Econ). She began her career working from 1939 to 1944 in the Danish Bacon Company. At the end of the Second World War, Cunliffe interrupted her career to undertake voluntary relief work in Europe, from 1945 to 1947, with the Guide International Service. The service had been formed from specially trained ex-Girl"
"Conducted by going door-to-door and inquiring, the study revealed that the most common profession was mill-hands, followed closely by weavers. When founded, the membership of the Statistical Society of London overlapped almost completely with the statistical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1837 a volume of ""Transactions of the Statistical Society of London"" were written, and in May 1838 the society began its journal. The first editor-in-chief of the journal was Rawson W. Rawson. In the early days of the society and the journal, there was dispute over whether or not opinions should be expressed,"
"Morris Ginsberg Morris Ginsberg FBA (14 May 1889 – 31 August 1970) was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of ""The Sociological Review"" in the 1930s and later became the founding chairman of the British Sociological Association in 1951 and its first President (1955–1957). He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943, and helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled ""The Race Question"". He was born in Kelmė, a small town in the Province of Kaunas in Lithuania (at the time occupied by the Russian"
"Leonard Hobhouse Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (8 September 1864 – 21 June 1929) was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book ""Liberalism"" (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establishment of sociology as an academic discipline; in 1907 he shared, with Edward Westermarck, the distinction of being the first professor of sociology to be appointed in the United Kingdom, at"
"the ""average period of production"" and on the effects that monetary policy could have upon it. In accordance with the reasoning later outlined in his essay ""The Use of Knowledge in Society"" (1945), Hayek argued that a monopolistic governmental agency like a central bank can neither possess the relevant information which should govern supply of money, nor have the ability to use it correctly. In 1929, Lionel Robbins assumed the helm of the London School of Economics (LSE). Eager to promote alternatives to what he regarded as the narrow approach of the school of economic thought that then dominated the"
"School of Economics in 1936. The school later made him an Honorary Fellow in 1982. He served in the Royal Signal Corps from 1939 but was transferred to Military Intelligence until 1946, reaching the rank of Major. From 1947 to 1958, he worked in Civil Service, mainly the Board of Trade. He was a Reader in Russian Social and Economic Studies at the University of London from 1958 to 1963 and Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow from 1963 to 1982. He was then Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow until his death. In 1982"
"Stanley Mordaunt Leathes Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, KCB, MA (7 May 1861 – 25 July 1938) was a British poet, economist, historian and senior Civil Service administrator, being the First Civil Service Commissioner from 1910 to 1927. Leathes was born in London, the eldest son of the Hebrew scholar Stanley Leathes and his wife Matilda (née Butt). His younger brother was John Beresford Leathes, a distinguished physiologist who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911. Stanley Mordaunt Leathes was educated at Eton College between 1873 and 1880, holding a King's Scholarship. On leaving Eton, he went up"
"Richard Titmuss Richard Morris Titmuss CBE, FBA (1907–1973) was a pioneering British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of Social Administration (now largely known in universities as Social Policy) and held the founding chair in the subject at the London School of Economics. His books and articles of the 1950s helped to define the characteristics of Britain's post World War II welfare state and of a universal welfare society, in ways that parallel the contributions of Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden. He is honoured in the Richard Titmuss Chair in Social Policy at the LSE, which is currently"
"principal re-articulator of his Crisis theory Henryk Grossman (1881–1950). In 1895 the London School of Economics (LSE) was founded by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb (1859–1947), Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), and George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), joining the University of London in 1900. In the 1930s LSE member Sir Roy G.D. Allen (1906–1983) popularized the use of mathematics in economics. Neoclassical economics developed in the 1870s. There were three main independent schools. The Cambridge School was founded with the 1871 publication of Jevons' ""Theory of Political Economy"", developing theories of partial equilibrium and focusing on market failures. Its main representatives were Stanley"
"of modern social policy, the Royal Commission - and in particular its famous Minority Report - has often been closely twinned with the Beveridge Plan of 1942 as one of the two most seminal public enquiries into the working of British social policy over the last hundred years"", noting that the Minority Report has often been cited as one of the first descriptions of a modern welfare state. William Beveridge worked as a researcher for the Webbs on the Minority Report, on the issue of employment exchanges and was to write in his memoirs that ""the Beveridge Report stemmed from"
"at Christ's College, Cambridge. Upon leaving Cambridge in 1904 he was appointed head of mathematics at the West Ham Municipal Technical Institute (one of the forerunners of the University of East London). He also registered as a research student at University College London, where he studied under Karl Pearson, and was awarded a D.Sc. in 1916. In March 1920 he moved to become statistician to the Chamber of Shipping and remained there until his retirement in 1942, when his position as statistician was taken by Maurice Kendall. In 1926 He wrote a review for the Journal of the Royal Statistical"