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1938 book by Harold Macmillan
The Middle Way
AuthorHarold Macmillan
SubjectPolitics, Economics, International relations, British studies
PublisherRandom House
Publication date1938

The Middle Way: A Study of the Problems of Economic and Social Progress in a Free and Democratic Society is a 1938 book on political philosophy written by Harold Macmillan, a British Conservative Party politician and later prime minister of the United Kingdom. It was originally published in 1938 (by Macmillan & Co, Ltd, London). It advocated a broadly centrist approach to the domestic and international problems of that time, and was written when Macmillan was Member of Parliament for Stockton-on-Tees but before he entered the Cabinet. He called for a programme of nationalisation at least as ambitious as then advocated by the Labour Party.

Content

It is subtitled 'A Study of the Problems of Economic and Social Progress in a Free and Democratic Society' and is divided into 3 main sections

  • Part 1 The Needs
Ch I The Emergence of a New Doctrine
Ch II Life and Liberty
Ch III The End of Radical Reformism
Ch IV Minimum Needs and Present Incomes
Ch V Present Methods of Distribution
Ch VI What Has to be Done
  • Part 2 The Methods
Ch VII Past Theories and Present Needs
Ch VIII Public Enterprise & Private Combination
Ch IX The Aims of Economic Policy in the Future
Ch X Industrial Reconstruction
Ch XI Finance
Ch XII Foreign Trade
Ch XIII Co-ordination
  • Part 3 The Benefits
Ch XIV The Minimum Wage
Ch XV A Minimum for the Unemployed
Ch XVI Public Utility Distribution
Ch XVII Economic Security
Ch XVII Freedom & Progress

See also

References

  1. Andrew Denham; Mark Garnett; Kieron O'Hara; Kevin Hickson (2008). Democratising Conservative Leadership Selection: From Grey Suits to Grass Roots. Oxford University Press. pp. 21–. ISBN 978-0-7190-7508-7.
  2. Kynaston, David (2007). A World to Build. London: Bloomsbury. p. 24. ISBN 9780747585404.
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