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[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

The book was "For Us, The Living"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Us,_The_Living:_A_Comedy_of_Customs

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.