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Isabella M. Weber

Isabella M. Weber

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Isabella M. Weber, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is the author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (Routledge, 2021).

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  1. Building a Buffer Against Food-Price Shocks
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    Building a Buffer Against Food-Price Shocks

    Oct 7, 2024 Isabella M. Weber, et al. urge Brazil and South Africa, as successive G20 presidents, to devise a new stabilization playbook.

  2. Who’s Afraid of Price Controls?
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    Who’s Afraid of Price Controls?

    Mar 26, 2024 Tom Krebs & Isabella M. Weber explain why Germany's economy is paying dearly for the government's failure to cap energy costs in 2022.

  3. Taking Aim at Sellers’ Inflation
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    Taking Aim at Sellers’ Inflation

    Jul 13, 2023 Isabella M. Weber urges policymakers to match their improved understanding of the problem with more appropriate policies.

  4. A New Economic Policy Playbook
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    A New Economic Policy Playbook

    Mar 13, 2023 Isabella M. Weber hopes the new openness to targeted price controls leads to broader intellectual reforms.

  5. Isabella M. Weber on inflation, deglobalization, China, and more
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    Isabella M. Weber on inflation, deglobalization, China, and more

    Sep 6, 2022 Isabella M. Weber advocates targeted price controls over growth-depressing interest-rate hikes, warns the US and Europe to avoid energy “shock therapy,” considers the Communist Party of China’s current economic priorities, and more.

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    The Deal Trump Should Offer China

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    Trump’s Bad COP

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