What is a populist economic policy?

[mileslunn]

On the right a populist one would be slashing salaries of government workers or cutting things generally seen as favouring the elites like public broadcasting or the arts.  Another one which a lot of right wing populist use in Europe is by cutting immigration there will be enough money to expand social programs and cut taxes without going into deficit (not true as immigration is beneficial economically, but many right wing populist parties in Europe run on this).

A left wing populist one would be jacking up taxes on the rich and big corporations even if to uncompetitive levels.  A more crazy one and perhaps this can also be found on the right too is return to the gold standard or have the central bank issue debt to fund programs by printing money.