noun
- an economist who believes that controlling the money supply is the key to managing the economy
Usage: economics
adjective
- relating to or supporting monetarism
Usage: economics
Examples
- The monetarist argued that inflation could be controlled by reducing the money supply.
- Milton Friedman was a famous monetarist economist.
- The central bank adopted monetarist policies to fight inflation.
- Monetarist theory emphasizes the role of money in economic fluctuations.
- The government’s monetarist approach focused on controlling monetary growth.
- Critics of monetarist economics argue that it oversimplifies complex economic relationships.