Isabella Weber Explained

Isabella Weber
Birth Date:1987
Birth Place:Nuremberg, Germany
Education:University of Cambridge (PhD)

Isabella M. Weber (born 1987 in Nuremberg, Germany[1]) is a German economist. She is an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[2]

Weber is known for having taken a position in favor of a price control policy. Her article published in The Guardian in December 2021[3] caused an uproar among economists.[4]

Life

In 2017, Weber obtained a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis was titled China's Escape from the 'Big-Bang': The 1980s Price Reform Debate in Historical Perspective and advised by Peter Nolan.[5]

From 2017 to 2019, Weber was a lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London.[6] In 2019, she became assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[7]

In December 2021, an op-ed she published in The Guardian which argued that strategic price controls could help control inflation in bottleneck situations was heavily criticized by economists, making her "the most hated woman in economics" (The New Yorker). Paul Krugman called her op-ed "truly stupid", a statement for which he later apologized.[8]

In 2022-23, Weber was a fellow in the Future of Capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute.[9] [10]

In 2022, Weber was a member of the German government's gas price commission, an expert advisory group of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.[11]

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Abstract: Das westdeutsche und das chinesische »Wirtschaftswunder« . 2022-05-05. (PDF-Datei) Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Februar 2020.
  2. Web site: Isabella Weber . . 2023-06-14.
  3. News: Weber . Isabella . 29 December 2021 . Could strategic price controls help fight inflation? . en . The Guardian . Kings Place, London . 14 June 2023.
  4. News: Carter . Zachary . What if We're Thinking About Inflation All Wrong? . 14 June 2023 . The New Yorker . Condé Nast . 6 June 2022 . New York City . en.
  5. Web site: Weber . Isabella Maria . 2018-03-24 . China's Escape from the "Big Bang": The 1980s Price Reform Debate in Historical Perspective . en.
  6. Web site: 2017-09-02 . IMS staff, Goldsmiths, University of London . 2023-06-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170902191924/http://www.gold.ac.uk/institute-management-studies/staff . 2 September 2017 .
  7. Web site: Isabella Weber Department of Economics UMass Amherst . 2023-06-25 . www.umass.edu.
  8. Web site: Krugman, Paul . 2022-01-01 . Entschuldigungstweet an Isabella Weber . 2022-05-05 . Deleting, with Extreme Apologies, My Tweet about Isabella Weber on Price Controls. No Excuses. It’s Always Wrong to Use That Tone against Anyone Arguing in Good Faith, No Matter How Much You Disagree — Especially When There’s so Much Bad Faith out There.. Twitter
  9. News: Alloway . Tracy . Weisenthal . Joe . Transcript: Isabella Weber On Germany's Plan to Cap the Price of Gas . 18 September 2023 . . 10 November 2022 . en.
  10. Web site: Isabella Weber: The Economics and Politics of Seller’s Inflation . . 7 September 2023 . 18 September 2023 . en.
  11. Web site: 2022-10-26. Henning Bulka, Georg Winters. 2022-10-11. de. Energiekrise: Das sind die Mitglieder der Gaskommission. Rheinische Post.
  12. News: Isabella Weber . . Warren . Elizabeth . 13 September 2023 . 17 September 2023 . en.
  13. Web site: Isabella Weber . . 18 September 2023 . en.

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