William Beveridge

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, KCB (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) 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 (known as the Beveridge Report) served as the basis for the welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945... Beveridge saw full employment (defined as unemployment of no more than 3%) as the pivot of the social welfare programme he expressed in the 1942 report. Measures for achieving full-employment might include Keynesian-style fiscal regulation, direct control of manpower, and state control of the means of production. The impetus behind Beveridge's thinking was social justice, and the creation of an ideal new society after the war. He believed that the discovery of objective socio-economic laws (central planning) could solve the problems of society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beveridge

The Beveridge Report, officially entitled Social Insurance and Allied Services (Cmd. 6404),[1] is a government report, published in November 1942,[2] influential in the founding of the welfare state in the United Kingdom.[3] It was drafted by the Liberal economist William Beveridge[4] – with research and publicity by his future wife, mathematician Janet Philip[5] – who proposed widespread reforms to the system of social welfare to address what he identified as "five giants on the road of reconstruction":[6] "Want… Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness".[6] Published in the midst of World War II, the report promised rewards for everyone's sacrifices. Overwhelmingly popular with the public, it formed the basis for the post-war reforms known as the welfare state, which include the expansion of National Insurance and the creation of the National Health Service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge_Report