Chicago School

Chicago School definition - finance
Monetary theories that are closely linked with Milton Friedman, a noted monetarist and long-time professor at the University of Chicago. The monetarist theories that the Chicago School espouses say that the quantity of money in circulation and its rate of growth determines the level of economic activity and whether inflation occurs.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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