Beatrice Webb

Beatrice Webb virtually invented the welfare state and proved that ensuring decent education, food and medical care would dramatically boost the private sector.

Michael Giltz: Books: Marriage Plots, Baseball Woes, Economist Superheroes and the Opium Wars Michael Giltz 2011

Beatrice Webb virtually invented the welfare state and proved that ensuring decent education, food and medical care would dramatically boost the private sector.

Michael Giltz: Books: Marriage Plots, Baseball Woes, Economist Superheroes and the Opium Wars Michael Giltz 2011

Ecumenically, Ms. Nasar's cast of economists includes righties as well as lefties: Friedman, Hayek, Schumpeter in the cause of more or less free markets; Joan Robinson, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Marx himself for collectivism.

Follow the Money James Grant 2011

Once they attended a fancy dress party; he as the Tory municipal giant Joseph Chamberlain, she as social reformer Beatrice Webb.

Diary Hugh Muir 2010

When Malcolm Muggeridge was set to leave for the USSR as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, the influential socialist intellectual and Bolshevik enthusiast Beatrice Webb had brought the matter up:

Deathride John Mosier 2010

When Malcolm Muggeridge was set to leave for the USSR as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, the influential socialist intellectual and Bolshevik enthusiast Beatrice Webb had brought the matter up:

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Beatrice Webb regarded eugenics as ‘the most important question’ of all, while her husband revealed the statist and dirigiste character of the movement with his declaration that ‘no eugenicist can be a laissez faire individualist … he must interfere, interfere, interfere!’

How eugenics poisoned the welfare state 2009

It was whilst she was at the LSE, through her supervisor Graham Wallas, a prominent member of the Fabian Society, that Phillips first met Sydney and Beatrice Webb in 1906.

Marion Phillips. 2009

In spite of her pioneering work for women, she appears to have inspired strong dislike amongst other leading women in the Labour Party, with her abrasive, chilly manner and her tireless rising through the ranks of the Party; according to the diary of Beatrice Webb, Phillips was “much disliked by the other leading women of the labour movement.”

Marion Phillips. 2009

Look back on the early days of the Fabian Society and the sort of thing that Sydney and Beatrice Webb were so interested in, comes dangerously close to that idea, 'It's the State's job to solve every problem.'

The Archbishop's Response to the Presence and Engagement Study Day, with Q&As 2009