In 1942 former LSE Director William Beveridge launched his blueprint for a British universal care system, ‘from the cradle to the grave’. Some 75 years on, LSE offers a week-long festival of public events, starting on February 19, exploring today’s “Five Giants”: the challenges of poverty; health and social care; education and skills; housing and urbanisation; and the future of work.
For further information please see: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festival
In this episode, LSE’s Christine Whitehead, Professor Emeritus in Housing Economics, discusses squalor / housing:
Here is the rest of the series (in alphabetical order):
David Graeber on idleness / work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRU7zKWNco
Martin Knapp on disease / health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJIE2vn88jk
Lucinda Platt on poverty / want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCVGqYWFjg
Anne West on ignorance / education
