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March 1972

Has Monetarism Failed?—The Record Examined

by Darryl R. Francis

As government grows larger, it becomes both a potential stabilizer and destabilizer of the economy. Individuals bear higher and higher costs of economic instability, particularly in the form of unemployment and inflation. It thus becomes imperative that the economics profession, along with policymakers, investigate all alternative theories of stabilization and consider all available policy recommendations.