While central planning has historically been associated with the American left, and with failed socialist experiments outside the U.S., it’s most recently revealed itself on the American right. The ...

Paul Krugman writes that “monetarism—broadly defined as the view that monetary policy can and should be used to stabilize economies—has more or less disappeared from the scene, both intellectually and ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy. But one school of economic thought, called monetarism, maintains that the money supply (the total amount of money ...

From 1979 to 1982, then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker foisted the now discredited policy of monetarism on the U.S., and the world more broadly. Somewhat happily its utter failure ensured Jimmy ...

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While many conventional economists and market monetarists did not express much concern about inflation (until recently), more traditional monetarists like Bob Hetzel and Tim Congdon correctly warned ...

The Bank of England has faced a lot of criticism over the past few years for failing to pay sufficient attention to the money supply. Earlier this month, Mervyn King – a former Bank Governor – said it ...

For those who fear the capture of higher education by the left, the late Milton Friedman rejects the very notion. To this day, left, right and center from the most elite of elite colleges the world ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1979 Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street determined to tame out-of-control inflation. Her monetarist ...

Disciples of Milton Friedman are delighted: Monetarism seems to be working again, three decades after the economic theory was ditched as the guiding light of central bank policy. Their happiness is ...

In “Yuan Sets Stage for China-U.S. Currency Friction” (Heard on the Street, June 3), Mike Bird fails to inform us as to why the Chinese yuan is at its strongest level against the U.S. dollar since ...