monetarism
noun
a doctrine holding that changes in the money supply determine the direction of a nation's economy.
monetarist
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a word derived from
monetarism.
Example Sentences
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He and a co-author used “unpleasant monetarist arithmetic” to show that if people don’t believe their government will eventually raise enough taxes to pay back debt, the central bank can be powerless to stop inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He served on the frontbench as a foreign affairs and then Treasury spokesman but resigned in 1978 in protest at Margaret Thatcher's monetarist policies.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2018
Indeed, I wrote my first monthly review article at the Richmond Fed on flexible exchange rates and I took a monetarist position in internal policy debates—as did many of my colleagues.
From Forbes ● Jul. 31, 2014
But if Lawson was a monetarist and a free marketeer, he was intelligent and flexible about both and brave on top.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2012
He is not the rabid monetarist that RA and Sumner are.
From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2012
