The Middle Way is a book on political philosophy written by Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

 (Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

politician and later prime minister) and first 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 during a period when Macmillan was out of active office.

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