William Beveridge: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from William Beveridge, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Plot job vacancies against unemployment and a predictable curve appears
In 1944, William Beveridge argued that unfilled job vacancies and unemployment move in opposite directions: more openings, fewer jobless, and vice versa. Charting the two together …
— William Beveridge, Full Employment in a Free Society
A government report on insurance became a wartime bestseller
In 1942, civil servant William Beveridge published a report naming five 'giant evils' to defeat after the war: Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. Despite its dry title…
— William Beveridge, Social Insurance and Allied Services

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