monetarist

• Substantiv, das eine Person bezeichnet, die die Wirtschaftstheorie unterstützt, nach der Konjunkturschwankungen in erster Linie durch Veränderungen der Geldmenge verursacht werden.

A noun referring to a person who advocates the economic theory that fluctuations in the economy are primarily caused by changes in the money supply.

1. Economic theory advocateC1formal

   A person who supports the economic theory that changes in the money supply are the primary cause of economic fluctuations and that controlling the money supply is the best way to manage the economy.

   Vertreter des Monetarismus

   • The monetarist argued that inflation is always a monetary phenomenon.
   • Many monetarists believe that central banks should focus solely on controlling the money supply.
   • The government's economic advisor is a well-known monetarist.