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.

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