Isabella M Weber (@IsabellaMWeber) / X

Isabella M Weber

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Isabella M Weber

@IsabellaMWeber

EconProf @UMass | "cost-shock queen" FT | Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prize | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next

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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Apr 20
Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with @randomhouse.
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Aug 29, 2024
How it started. How it’s going.
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Jan 24, 2025
And so it begins… The German conservatives have given up on their pledge not to collaborate with the AfD and are now joining forces on anti-migration policies. This is a very dark moment, just weeks before the election.
Alice Weidel
@Alice_Weidel
Jan 24, 2025
Die Brandmauer ist gefallen! CDU und CSU haben mein Angebot angenommen, in der Schicksalsfrage der Migration im Bundestag gemeinsam mit der AfD zu stimmen. Das ist eine gute Nachricht für unser Land! Wir haben geliefert, nun muss die Union auch liefern.
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Sep 3, 2023
Far right Alternative for Germany #2 in the polls ahead of all three governing parties. This should be a wake-up call. For economic policy this means: Ending austerity, ending the decline in living standards of the many, starting an ambitious public investment agenda.
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Nov 6, 2024
Can we now finally have a serious conversation about an anti-fascist economics?
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Mar 9, 2022
How can we have internationally coordinated economic sanctions on a very large scale without equally internationally coordinated measures to stabilize global food, energy and commodity markets? Asking for the world.
Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Jun 9, 2024
Germans have experienced the most dramatic decline in real wages since 1950 as a result of inflation. This is painful for most people and devastating for those who had low incomes to begin with. 33% of Germans with low living standards have voted for the far right AfD today.
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Jun 26, 2023
BREAKING: Sellers’ Inflation is now an IMF take.
IMF
@IMFNews
Jun 26, 2023
Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy. bit.ly/441jfya
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Sep 28, 2024
Shock therapy once more doing what shock therapy does. After Milei abolished price controls & slashed government spending, inflation shot up to ~300%. 3.4 million Argentinians pushed into poverty. Poverty rate highest level in two decades. At least 136,000 jobs wiped out.
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Sep 1, 2022
It turns out that the *expectation* of price caps and windfall profit taxes alone is already bringing down power prices.
Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Feb 27, 2023
Corporate concentration is a possible explanation of price and profit hikes driving inflation. But concentration was high before inflation. So, why can firms hike prices in an emergency? We explore this question in a new working paper. A 🧵scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpa…
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Apr 21, 2023
Now UBS chief economist also finds profit-led inflation. Who is next?
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Dec 15, 2023
Germans have experienced a dramatic decline in real wages. The government just added an austerity program in response to the budget crisis. The country is on track for a deep recession while the far right AfD has overtaken all governing parties in the polls.
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Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
May 2, 2023
BREAKING: Profit-driven inflation has made it into The Wall Street Journal.
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