The Middle Way (book) explained

The Middle Way
Author:Harold Macmillan
Subject:Politics, Economics, International relations, British studies
Publisher:Random House
Pub Date:1938[1]

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.[2]

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

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

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

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

Notes and References

  1. Book: Andrew Denham. Mark Garnett. Kieron O'Hara. Kevin Hickson. Democratising Conservative Leadership Selection: From Grey Suits to Grass Roots. 2008. Oxford University Press. 978-0-7190-7508-7. 21–.
  2. Book: David Kynaston

    . Kynaston. David. David Kynaston. A World to Build. 2007. Bloomsbury. London. 9780747585404. 24.