Isabella Weber Interview on Inflation, Price Controls, and Globalization

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PERI’s Isabella M. Weber discusses reimagining economic policymaking as a form of disaster preparedness in response to the pandemic, climate change and geopolitical instability. She advocates targeted price controls over growth-depressing interest-rate hikes, warns the U.S. and Europe to avoid energy “shock therapy,” considers the Communist Party of China’s current economic priorities, and more.