Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
monetarism \mon"e*tar*ism\, n.
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.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
monetarism
n 1: an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment
and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in
the supply of money