Money, Markets, and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918.(Review) (book review)

Money, Markets, and the State: Social Democratic Policies since 1918. By Ton Notermans. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 312p. $59.95.

Notermans has written a bold and ambitious book in which he purports to explain the conditions under which social democratic policies, and therefore the social democratic project, have been successful in modern democracies. The book, which relies heavily but not exclusively on historical data, examines the ebb and flow of social democratic dominance in five countries--Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Britain--since roughly ...

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