Richard Titmuss

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Richard Titmuss, Professor at the London School of Economics, adviser to governments, prolific author, was instrumental in shaping the new disciplines of Social Policy and Administration. He made a valuable contribution to social philosophy through his attempt to integrate welfare into its broad social context. In this revised edition of his well-known book, Professor Reisman relies on the whole of Titmuss's work, unpublished as well as published, to explain and evaluate the theories of this provocative but often difficult author. --Goodreads Synopsis

subjects: Welfare state,  Social policy,  Public welfare,  Welfare economics

People: Richard Morris Titmuss (1907-1973)