Money, Markets, and the State
Social Democratic Economic Policies since 1918

This book, first published in 2000, provides in-depth explanations behind the successes and failures of the economic policies of social democratic governments.

Ton Notermans (Author)

9780521633390, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 April 2000

324 pages, 15 b/w illus. 23 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.65 kg

"[E]xtremely distinctive ... deeply impressive." Review of International Political Economy

Money, Markets, and the State, first published in 2000, provides in-depth explanations behind the various successes and failures of the economic policies of social democratic governments in five Western European countries: Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Dr Notermans examines these economic systems from the inflation of the early twenties, through the Great Depression of the thirties and then continues his analysis up to present-day mass unemployment. Drawing on a wide range of historical and statistical sources, Dr Notermans argues that the fate of social democratic economic policy hinges critically on the political and institutional success of maintaining price stability and not on structural economic factors such as changing supply side conditions or increasing globalization of economic relations. Although social democracy has repeatedly been declared obsolete, the study concludes that even under present economic conditions, successful policies for full employment are possible by way of social democratic theory.

List of tables and figures
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
A note on terminology
1. Social democracy in the macroeconomy
2. Politics, economics and political economy
3. Why was there no social democratic breakthrough in the twenties?
4. The creation of the social democratic consensus
5. The breakdown of the social democratic consensus
6. Social democracy in the twenty-first century
Notes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP]