Richard Titmuss

Richard Morris Titmuss ( born October 16, 1907 † 6 April 1973) was a British social scientist and economist.

He established the subject Social Policy at the London School of Economics and coined the British welfare state to a similar extent as that of the was also involved in the eugenics movement did Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden.

According to him, the Richard Titmuss Chair of Social Policy was named, which is currently occupied (2010) by Julian Le Grand.

Titmuss grew up as a child of a farmer with no formal education and was able to be self-taught a university position as well as several functions as political and government advisors to work out.

Titmuss was married to Kathleen Miller and had a daughter.

Significant Publications

  • Problems of Social Policy. 1950 ( Online version of World War II Official History)
  • Essays on the Welfare State. 1958
  • Income Distribution and Social Change. 1962
  • Commitment to Welfare. 1968
  • Richard Titmuss: The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy. 1970th reprint: New Press, ISBN 1-56584-403-3 ( New edition with new chapters in 1997, John Ashton & Ann Oakley, LSE Books)
  • Peter Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley and Adrian Sinfield (eds.): Welfare & Wellbeing: Richard Titmuss 's contribution to social policy.
  • Ann Oakley & Jonathan Barker (ed. ): Private Complaints and Public Health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service.
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