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
Having gone to the Richmond Fed after graduate school, Friedman’s early influence on me and my colleagues were his monetarist stance—‘Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon’ —and his support of flexible exchange rates.
From Forbes ● Jul. 31, 2014
One need not share Mr Congdon's monetarist interpretation to agree with the essence.
From Economist ● Apr. 9, 2013
This issue is discussed in more depth along with many others, such as how markets work, why fears of inflation are misplaced and why 1980s monetarist economics still have so much influence.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
