The Middle Way (book)

The Middle Way: A Study of the Problems of Economic and Social

Progress in a Free and Democratic Society is a book on political The Middle Way
philosophy written by Harold Macmillan (British Conservative Party Author Harold Macmillan
politician and later prime minister of the United Kingdom). It was Subject Politics, Economics,
originally published in 1938 (by Macmillan & Co, Ltd, London). It
International
advocated a broadly centrist approach to the domestic and
relations, British
international problems of that time, and was written during a period
when Macmillan was out of active office. He called for a programme studies
of nationalisation at least as ambitious as then advocated by the Publisher Random House
Labour Party (UK).[2] Publication 1938[1]
date
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
Third Way
References
1. Andrew Denham; Mark Garnett; Kieron O'Hara; Kevin Hickson (2008). Democratising
Conservative Leadership Selection: From Grey Suits to Grass Roots (https://books.google.com/
books?id=MNKSDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA21). Oxford University Press. pp. 21–. ISBN 978-0-7190-
7508-7.
2. Kynaston, David (2007). A World to Build (https://archive.org/details/worldtobuild0000kyna/pag
e/24). London: Bloomsbury. p. 24 (https://archive.org/details/worldtobuild0000kyna/page/24).
ISBN 9780747585404.

Macmillan H (1978) The Middle Way, EP Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7158-1333-1

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