Meanings
plural monetarisms
- countableuncountableeconomicsThe political doctrine that a nation's economy (in particular inflation) can be controlled by regulating the money supply.
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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 of monetarism is one of the primary culprits behind the economic crisis that we have been living through for the past five years.
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
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 貨幣主義 /货币主义
- 貨幣主義 /货币主义 (huòbìzhǔyì)economic and political doctrine
Czech monetarismus
- monetarismuseconomic and political doctrine
Finnish monetarismi
- monetarismieconomic and political doctrine
French monétarisme
- monétarismeeconomic and political doctrine
German Monetarismus
- Monetarismuseconomic and political doctrine
Norwegian Bokmål monetarisme
- monetarismeeconomic and political doctrine
Polish monetaryzm
- monetaryzmeconomic and political doctrine
Romanian monetarism
- monetarismeconomic and political doctrine
Russian монетаризм
- монетаризм (monetarizm)economic and political doctrine
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monetarism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monetarism
“monetarism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monetarism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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