Sentence examples for * monetarist in from inspiring English sources
John Tamny, the editor of RealClearMarkets.com, a Forbes.com columnist and a monetarist in the fashion of Milton Friedman, thinks GDP is a flawed number.
The Bank of England, on the other hand, calls its purchases of government and private debt "quantitative easing" and explains it in monetarist terms.
This may be because economists divided into Keynesians and monetarists in the 1970s.
But at the regular Bank for International Settlements meetings in Basle he learned how his North American and German colleagues had refined monetary targeting, while economists in the Bank were putting monetarist ideas in a British context.
But while Germany's central banker, Jens Weidmann, has been a vocal monetarist hawk in the contentious debate leading to Thursday's move, the other German in the ECB governing council, Jörg Asmussen, played a key role in drafting the new policy.
It was possible to be pro-EU and still want to punch its current monetarist policies in the face.
Oil price shocks, economic recessions, and anti-inflationary monetarist policies in the world's economically dominant countries precipitated a developing world debt crisis.
Prominent American economists such as Paul Krugman and Joseph E. Stiglitz argued that without greater government borrowing, the post-2008 misery would be prolonged; their opponents, such as the respected monetarist economists Tim Congdon in the U.K. and Steven Horwitz in the U.S., said that this would lead to disaster.
The wind is in the sails of the critics of neoliberalism; the neoliberals and monetarists are in retreat.
Some analyses (including those of arch-monetarist Milton Friedman in his book The Great Contraction) contend that the Fed's efforts in the 1930s were crucial to dragging the economy out of the Great Depression.
The queasy quasi-monetarists are, in a way, the mirror image of this position, so focused on the monetary solution that they rail against any suggestion that fiscal policy might play a useful role.
