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monetarism

[ mon-i-tuh-riz-uhm, muhn- ]

noun

Economics.
  1. a doctrine holding that changes in the money supply determine the direction of a nation's economy.


monetarism

/ ˈʌɪəˌɪə /

noun

  1. the theory that inflation is caused by an excess quantity of money in an economy
  2. an economic policy based on this theory and on a belief in the efficiency of free market forces, that gives priority to achieving price stability by monetary control, balanced budgets, etc, and maintains that unemployment results from excessive real wage rates and cannot be controlled by Keynesian demand management
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

monetarism

  1. The economic doctrine that the supply of money has a major impact on a nation's economic growth. For example, monetarists prefer to control inflation by restricting the growth of a nation's money supply rather than by raising taxes. The doctrine is associated with Milton Friedman .
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDzԱٲ, nounadjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Dz·ٲ· noun adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of monetarism1

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; monetar(y) + -ism
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But Labour grandee Lord Blunkett wants Reeves to "loosen a little the self-imposed fiscal rules", calling them "Treasury orthodoxy and monetarism at its worst".

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Jay used his columns to promote "monetarism" in England.

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The influence of the econcons peaked in the late 1970s with Milton Friedman's monetarism and Arthur Laffer's curve.

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Yet even Volcker, who pioneered the use of monetarism at the Fed, ultimately abandoned a strict reliance upon money supply growth in managing the economy.

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“I wrote 70 percent of that criticism myself. When I became editor of the Times, I continued to criticize monetarism.”

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