Social credit is an interdisciplinary distributive philosophy
developed by C. H. Douglas (1879–1952), a British engineer, who
wrote a book by that name in 1924. It encompasses the fields of
economics, political science, history, accounting, and physics.
Its policies are designed, according to Douglas, to disperse
economic and political power to individuals. Douglas once wrote,
"Systems were made for men, and not men for systems, and the
interest of man which is self-development, is above all systems,
whether theological, political or economic." Douglas said that
Social Crediters want to build a new civilization based upon
"absolute economic security" for the individual, where "they
shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and
none shall make them afraid." In his words, "what we really
demand of existence is not that we shall be put into somebody
else's Utopia, but we shall be put in a position to construct a
Utopia of our own." It was while he was reorganising the work at
Farnborough, during