The book was "For Us, The Living" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Us,_The_Living:_A_Comedy_of_Customs" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Us,_The_Living:_A_Comedy_of_Customs</a> Wikipedia attributes the economic theory to Clifford Hugh Douglas. For some reason that doesn't sound right to me but I don't have the book within reach.