Aneurin Bevan served as the Minister of Health in Attlee’s Labour government in the post-WW2 period. Bevan’s political ability and oratorical skill earned him the respect of The Times as “the Labour Party’s most brilliant member in debate”. The son…
William Beveridge provided the creative thought-leadership for the social development policies that contributed to the economic recovery of Britain in the postwar period. Early in his career, Beveridge had served as an advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George on…
John Maynard Keynes provided the thought-leadership in macroeconomics that enabled Britain’s Labour government to implement the policies that produced the nation’s post-WW2 economic recovery. Listed among Time magazine’s “Most Important People of the Century” in 1999, John Maynard Keynes is…
Clement Attlee became British Prime Minister in 1945. During the ensuing six years under his leadership, the nation was transformed from a wartime economy on the brink of bankruptcy to a prosperous and more egalitarian society. A serious, modest, and…