Douglas, Clifford

Douglas, Clifford

▪ British economist
in full  Clifford Hugh Douglas,  
born Jan. 20, 1879, Stockport, Cheshire, Eng.
died Sept. 29, 1952, Dundee, Scot.

      British economist and originator of the theory of Social Credit.

      He began a career in engineering and management, but society's failure to utilize modern technology fully stimulated his interest in economic theories. These were expounded (1919) in The New Age, the socialist publication of Alfred Richard Orage, and in Douglas' first book, Economic Democracy (1920). His basic idea was that the remedy for the chronic deficiency of purchasing power in the economy would be the issuance of additional money to consumers, or of subsidies to producers, in order to liberate production from the price system. Douglas' ideas attracted considerable public attention in the early 1920s, but the only extensive following was in Alberta, Canada, where the Social Credit Party was founded in 1935. The party dominated the province's politics until 1971, but Douglas' principles were virtually abandoned in the late 1930s.

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