supply side

noun, adj — 2 senses

supply side

nounalso spelled supply-side
1

Economics, Sciences In a market trade, the side where the supply comes from.

Derived terms
supply-side economics
Related terms
trickle down, trickle-down, trickle-down hypothesis

supply-side

adj
1

Economics, Sciences Regarding or promoting the supply side of the economy.

  • Coordinate term: demand-side
  • Brown told her that she sounded very supply-side, but what about that memo to Muskie, which had recently surfaced, denouncing supply-siders as a “right-wing claque”?1984, Peter Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington, →ISBN, page 66:
2 more examples
  • While the George W. Bush tax cuts were supply-side in principle, a look at the provisions doesn’t support the progressive argument that they favored the rich at the expense of the poor.2009, George Melloan, The Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism, →ISBN, page 99:
  • Born out of a history of highly supply-side interventions, these programs lacked targeting and analysis of the local relevant determinants of malnutrition, and did not have a cost-eff ective impact on malnutrition […]2014, Learning from World Bank History: Agriculture and Food-Based Approaches for Addressing Malnutrition, World Bank, page 6:
Derived terms
supply-sider

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