monetarism
monetarism noun: the doctrine that economic systems are controlled by variations in the supply of money.
Noun
monetarism (countable and uncountable, plural monetarisms)
- The doctrine that economic systems are controlled by variations in the supply of money.
- The political doctrine that a nation's economy (in particular inflation) can be controlled by regulating the money supply.
- Monetarism, you see, has two components. The first is that the central bank should try to control the money supply. In light of the Bank's report that part of the monetarist doctrine is now a dinosaur fit only to be displayed in the museum of failed economic ideas. […] Indeed, this second component...2014 March 22, Philip Pilkington, “Monetarism is the living dead of economic theory – let's kill it off”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019
Forms of monetarism
| plural | monetarisms |
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Origin of monetarism
From monetary + -ism.
Questions about monetarism
- What does monetarism mean?
- Monetarism means the doctrine that economic systems are controlled by variations in the supply of money.
- What part of speech is monetarism?
- Monetarism is a noun.
- What is the plural of monetarism?
- The plural of monetarism is monetarisms.
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