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.

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