monetarism

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A theory holding that economic variations within a given system, such as changing rates of inflation, are most often caused by increases or decreases in the money supply.
• noun A policy that seeks to regulate an economy by altering the domestic money supply, especially by increasing it in a moderate but steady manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An economic theory holding that the rate of growth of the money supply is the priunciple cause of changes in inflation, economic growth, and unemployment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun economics The doctrine that economic systems are controlled by variations in the supply of money
• noun economics The political doctrine that a nation's economy can be controlled by regulating the money supply

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money