# Money and Monetarism

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Friedman argued that changes in the money supply are central to nominal income, inflation, and major economic fluctuations. His monetary history with Anna Schwartz used historical evidence to contend that policy failures deepened the Great Depression. He favored predictable monetary rules over discretionary fine-tuning, while later monetary research has debated the stability of those rules.

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