Monetarism
(noun)
The doctrine that economic systems are controlled by variations in the supply of money.
Examples of Monetarism in the following topics:
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Monetarist
- Monetarism focuses on the macroeconomic effects of the supply of money and the role of central banking on an economic system.
- In the rise of monetarism as an ideology, two specific economists were critical contributors.
- Clark Warburton, in 1945, has been identified as the first thinker to draft an empirically sound argument in favor of monetarism.
- As these counter arguments in the 1980s began to arise, critics of monetarism became more mainstream.
- Of the current monetarism critics, the Austrian school of thought is likely the most well-known.
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Arguments For and Against Inflation Targeting Policy Interventions
- Adherents of market monetarism, for example, argue that targeting a nominal national income (nominal GDP) would be more effective than targeting inflation.