Isabella Weber profile, economist advocates price-stabilizing policies

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Isabella Weber, 38, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center, tells the Guardian she wants to "abandon ideology" and build a "big tent economic policy" to counter a rising far right by making life’s necessities affordable. Weber popularised the term "greedflation" to describe profiteering during cost-of-living crises and argues that extreme inequality, corporate concentration and climate-driven windfall profits are eroding democracy. Her new book, Anti-Fascist Economics, distills years of research into inequality and inflation and recommends reclaiming essentials such as housing, transport, food, water, energy and healthcare for the public good. In a 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood lecture she argued for emergency price caps to prevent price explosions in essentials when supply cannot be quickly adjusted. Weber advises policymakers in the US, Europe and Latin America, and the Guardian reports progressive politicians are already heeding her proposals.

Wajahat Ali

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People should take a minute to listen to anti-fascist economist Isabella Weber. We can have nice things, folks. thelefthook.substack.com/p/we-can-hav...

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"Roosevelt said explicitly- fascism is what happens when private power grows stronger than the democratic state itself"

Isabella M. Weber

@isabellamweber.bsky.social

Um dem aufsteigenden Faschismus die Stirn zu bieten, braucht die Politik einen Kurswechsel weg vom Profitfundamentalismus hin zu einer Politik der Bezahlbarkeit. Das ganze Gespräch hier: freitag.de/autoren/hann...

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1/ Ottawa! Join NDP Leader Avi Lewis and world-renowned economist Isabella Weber for a conversation about a bold new agenda that puts dignity and affordability at the heart of economic policy.

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2/ Weber's work on inflation and corporate profiteering have informed policy debates and been used by governments in Germany, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., including by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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Alan Stedman

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Really worthwhile article to understand what people like Mamdani and others including Burnham are thinking about how to move forward politically and economically It won't go down well with the trickle down now liberals, especially the Tech guys www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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New York City Policy Forum

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Announcing Governing for Affordability @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social featuring leaders tackling the affordability crisis in theory and practice. With Elle Bisgaard-Church, @linamkhan.bsky.social, @isabellamweber.bsky.social, Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg, and more. RSVP nycpolicyforum.org/event/govern...

Monday, October 26, 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM, Governing for Affordability, a New York City Policy Forum convening bringing together key thinkers and government officials to debate and assess what affordability has meant in New York City and its relevance for policymaking across the country. Speakers: Elle Bisgaard-Church, Lina Khan, Isabella Weber, Zachary Liscow, Emily Eisner, Samuel Levine, Leila Bozorg, Emmy Liss, Errol Schweizer, Alex Hertel-Fernandez

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Aleianjack

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We Can Have Nice Things: How to Defend and Promote Anti-Fascist Economics thelefthook.substack.com/p/we-can-hav...

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JuneSim63 💚

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"Witnessing the far right succeed, while her economist peers act as “a major blockage to economic policies that would rehabilitate faith in democracy? It’s made me desperate to hold my ground.” Good interview with economist Isabella Weber #Economics #Fascism www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Broadbent Institute

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In 2024, Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecturer @isabellamweber.bsky.social argued: "We need emergency price caps to prevent price explosions in essentials, when we do not have instruments to adjust supply, and make supply more resilient."

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We've gotta fight fascism at every stage! @wajali.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @majorityreport.bsky.social youtu.be/Yz_bxW7qrio?...

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Cathy Fry

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substack.com/@thelefthook... Long but excellent economic discussion. Maybe @jimchalmers.bsky.social could take some damn notes

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Stefan Tiron

@tironstefan.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/live/YiNVeBH... #mustwatch Less foreign capital on the Berlin housing market could even be advantageous! Because what is a problem for investors doesn't have to be one for the population by a long shot. Profit interests and #affordable #housing aren't the same thing, after all.

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En Buen Ora

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Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy by Isabella Weber www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz_b...

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I wish more economists were like @isabellamweber.bsky.social and @rbreich.bsky.social and recognized that the US economy is very, very broken, but also that we have to act and act NOW if we want to have a chance of fixing it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Would that the "centrist" Democrats paid attention to this: ‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for reality https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/16/isabella-weber-anti-fascist-economics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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'People's dignity, and democracy, is at stake': meet the economist ditching ideology for reality ->The Guardian | More on "Economics beyond ideological dogma" at BigEarthData.ai | #Democracy

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