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 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]

The Middle Way

Author	Harold Macmillan
Subject	Politics, Economics, International relations, British studies
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1938[1]

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. 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.

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