Russia in the early 1990s did not actually follow monetarism despite the rhetoric: central banker Gerashchenko ran the printing press faster and faster (rubles went from 180/$ in 1992 to over 5,000/$ in 1995), so markets were blamed for failures of a policy that wasn't really being implemented.

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Peter Boettke

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Russia did not follow this advice gerashenko notion of running monetarism was to print the printing press as faster and faster phases so that you actually threatened a hyperinflation

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Peter Boettke on Hurricane Katrina and the Economics of Disaster 12/18/2006EconTalk
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