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THOSE who weary of the puerile aspects of party politics, and think that the 'something rotten' in the State is its economic structure, will welcome this thought-compelling book with its major premise that social changes are ineluctable but amenable to human direction. Fully cognizant of the value of co-operation and of public ownership or control of certain essential services, the author lays down some fundamental rules for peaceful progress along a middle road between socialism and capitalism, which should ensure the safety of democracy and lead ultimately to the highest degree of individual freedom compatible with the general good.
The Middle Way:
a Study of the Problem of Economic and Social Progress in a Free and Democratic Society. By Harold Macmillan. Pp. ix + 382. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 5s. net.
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E., E. The Middle Way:. Nature 142, 93 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142093a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142093a0