Isabella Weber
PERI Research Associate and Research Leader in China Studies;
Assistant Professor of Economics
Isabella M. Weber (Ph.D., University of Cambridge and Ph.D., The New School for Social Research) is the Research Leader for China of the Asian Political Economy Program at PERI and an Assistant Professor of Economics at UMass. She was previously a Lecturer (tenured) at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the principal investigator of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK)-funded research project “What drives specialisation? A century of global export patterns.” Isabella holds an M.Phil. and M.A. in Economics from The New School for Social Research, a B.A. from Free University Berlin and studied Chinese at Peking University. She is the author of the forthcoming book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (discussed in this interview). Her work combines economic theory, economic history and China studies to examine the interaction between economic thinking, policy and long-term structural patterns in periods of deep social transformation. Her research has been awarded the 2018 Warren Samuels Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in History of Economic Thought and Methodology and the 2019 International Convention of Asia Scholars’ Ground-breaking Subject Matter Accolade. She has regularly served as a China expert for BBC News and as adviser to members of the German parliament on China issues.
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Recent Research
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Commodity Price Stabilization in an Age of Overlapping Emergencies: The Case for International Buffer Stocks
August 2024
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Towards a Post-neoliberal Stabilization Paradigm: Revisiting International Buffer Stocks in an Age of Overlapping Emergencies Based on the Case of Food
June 2024
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Can Price Controls Be Optimal? The Economics of the Energy Shock in Germany
March 2024
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Sellers’ Inflation, Profits, and Conflict: Why Can Large Firms Hike Prices in an Emergency?
February 2023
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State Capitalism, Imperialism, and China: Bringing History Back In
February 2023
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The State-Constituted Market Economy: A Conceptual Framework for China’s State–Market Relations
December 2021
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The Nature of Money and the Theory of International Trade: Thornton and Ricardo
October 2021
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The (Im-)Possibility of Rational Socialism: Mises in China’s Market Reform Debate
October 2021
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How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
May 2021
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Inequality in Energy Consumption: Statistical Equilibrium or a Question of Accounting Conventions?
April 2020