monetarism
noun
mon·e·tar·ism
ˈmä-nə-tə-ˌri-zəm 
also ˈmə-
: a theory in economics that stable economic growth can be assured only by control of the rate of increase of the money supply to match the capacity for growth of real productivity
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The influence of Milton Friedman’s monetarism For Thatcher, inflation was both a moral and an economic issue.
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Tim Lankester, Fortune, 16 May 2024
The theory’s monetarism—the policy of using the money supply to influence the whole economy instead of relying on complicated legislative decisions around taxing and spending—was similarly elegant and apolitical.
—Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
Anyone who suggests that a return to monetarism could have prevented the reemergence of inflation in recent years should look carefully at Thatcher’s experience with monetarism—and at Paul Volcker’s too—and steer well clear of it.
—Tim Lankester, Fortune, 16 May 2024
This new paradigm is notably more complicated than Friedman’s monetarism.
—Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
From 1982, incidentally the year in which Paul Volcker pulled the plug on monetarism in America, monetarism in the U.K. was progressively abandoned.
—Tim Lankester, Fortune, 16 May 2024
This emerging school of thought would be called monetarism.
—Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
The professor is a proponent of monetarism, an economic theory that holds that changes in the money supply are the main driver of inflation.
—Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 July 2023
The Great Depression set the stage for a shift away from strict monetarism and laissez-faire policies toward Keynesian demand management.
—Nancy Birdsall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2011
Tim Lankester, Fortune, 16 May 2024
The theory’s monetarism—the policy of using the money supply to influence the whole economy instead of relying on complicated legislative decisions around taxing and spending—was similarly elegant and apolitical.
—Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
Anyone who suggests that a return to monetarism could have prevented the reemergence of inflation in recent years should look carefully at Thatcher’s experience with monetarism—and at Paul Volcker’s too—and steer well clear of it.
—Tim Lankester, Fortune, 16 May 2024
This new paradigm is notably more complicated than Friedman’s monetarism.
—Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
From 1982, incidentally the year in which Paul Volcker pulled the plug on monetarism in America, monetarism in the U.K. was progressively abandoned.
—Tim Lankester, Fortune, 16 May 2024
This emerging school of thought would be called monetarism.
—Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
The professor is a proponent of monetarism, an economic theory that holds that changes in the money supply are the main driver of inflation.
—Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 July 2023
The Great Depression set the stage for a shift away from strict monetarism and laissez-faire policies toward Keynesian demand management.
—Nancy Birdsall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2011
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