Isabella Weber

• Ph.D., Economics, The New School for Social Research, 2019
• Ph.D., Development Studies, University of Cambridge, 2018
• M.A., Economics, The New School for Social Research, 2015
• B.A., Political Science (with Economics minor), Freie Universität Berlin, 2012

• 2023 - present Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2023 - present Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University
• 2019-2023 Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2017-2019 Lecturer in Economics (tenured) Goldsmiths, University of London

• Inflation and monetary economics, China’s political economy, international trade and (de-)globalization, history of economic thought

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics Econ 204 Intermediate Macroeconomics Spring & Fall 2020 Econ 306 History of Economic Thought (undergraduate) Fall 2019, 2020 Harvard University, History Department Ph.D. field exam adviser, Chinese economic thought Fall 2019-Fall 2020 Goldsmiths, University of London, Institute of Management Studies Economic History (undergraduate) Fall 2017, 2018 History of Economic Ideas (undergraduate) Spring 2018 Oxbridge-style supervisions for Introductory Economics 2017-2018, 2018-2019 University of Zurich, Department of History Chinese History of Economics Thought (executive masters) Spring 2018 University of Cambridge, Department of Economics Tutor, History and Philosophy of Economics (undergraduate) Lent 2017

The New School for Social Research, Department of Economics Teaching Assistant, Advanced Macroeconomics I GECO 6202 Fall 2014

• Raven Hetzler, Pre-Dissertation Advisor
• Cosku Mihci, Pre-Dissertation Advisor
• Evan Wasner, Pre-Dissertation Advisor
• Jesús Lara Jáuregui, Pre-Dissertation Advisor

• Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize, 2024
• Hans-Matthöfer Prize, 2024
• Kurt Rothschild Prize, 2023
• Keynes Prize, 2023
• The International Studies Association Best Interdisciplinary Book Award, 2022
• Joan Robinson Prize, 2021
• International Convention of Asia Scholars’ Ground-breaking Subject Matter Accolade for Ph.D. Thesis (Cambridge), 2019 
• Warren Samuels Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 2018 
• Goldsmiths International Engagement Fund Award, 2018 
• Goldsmiths Research and Enterprise Committee Award, 2018 
• Vice Chancellor’s Award, Cambridge Trust, 2015

• 2024-2026 Open Society Foundation Ideas Workshop, “Essential: Towards a New Stabilization Paradigm”, (Principal Investigator)
• 2023-2024 Bertelsmann Foundation, “Greenflation and Systemically Important Prices”, (Principal Investigator)
• 2023-2024 Senior Research Fellow, Macroeconomic Policy Institute
• 2022-24 New Venture Fund, “Inflation in Times of Overlapping Emergencies”, (Principal Investigator)
• 2022-2023 Berggruen Institute Fellow, Peking University and University of Southern California
• 2019-20 ESRC Rebuilding Macroeconomics Research Grant, “What Drives Specialisation? A Century of Global Export Patterns”, (Principal Investigator)
• 2016-2017 Suzy Paine Fund, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, fieldwork grant
• 2016-2017 The Universities’ China Committee London, fieldwork grant
• 2016-2017 Visiting Scholarship, Tsinghua University, School for Public Policy and Management
• 2016 Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Greta Burkill Grant

• 2020: Society for the Advancement of Social Economics, online; European Congress on World and Global intellectual History, Turku (cancelled); History of Economics Annual Conference, online; Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston (cancelled); Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, Boston
• 2019: Development Studies Association Annual Conference
• 2018: British Association of China Studies Annual Conference, London; International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy Annual Conference, Pula; The History of Economic Thought Society 50th Anniversary Conference, Oxford
• 2016: 40th Anniversary Conference of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge; Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Paris; Ricardo Conference, Royal Economic Society, Ricardo Society of Japan, School of  riental and African Studies, London
• 2015: The Nation-State and the World Economy between Two Eras of Globalization, 1913 – 1975, Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholars Initiative, Pisa; Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Taipei
• 2014 Eastern Economics Association, Boston

• 2020: UC Irvine, Long China Institute; University of Florence, Department of Economics; Mont Pelerin Society General Meeting 2020 Oslo (cancelled); University of Cologne, Department of Asia Studies; Deutsche Bank Endowment Lecture, University of Frankfurt (cancelled); Critical China Scholars Inaugural Workshop; Workshop in Chinese History of Economic Thought, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (cancelled); National Institute of Economic and Social Research, UK; Department of Economics, George Mason University (cancelled); Economic and Social History Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh
• 2019: Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF); Fairbank Centre, Harvard University; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Economics, Asian Political Economy Conference; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin; Institute of Advanced Studies Bad Homburg; China Centre, Jesus College, Cambridge
• 2018: Institute of Advanced Studies, Bad Homburg; Federal Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany, Berlin; Economic History Workshop, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Fudan University, Department of Philosophy, Shanghai; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH); Vienna Institute of International Economics; Institute for Human Science, Vienna; Post-Keynesian Economics Society Annual Workshop; Economics and Anthropology Workshop, Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF)
• 2017: King’s College London, Lau China Institute
• 2016: School of Management, Wuhan Textile University; Berlin Social Science Centre
• 2015: University of Cambridge, Department of Philosophy; Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Economics (HPPE) seminar, Economic History Department, London School of Economics

• “Could the US and Chinese Economies Really Decouple?,” The Guardian, September 11, 2020.
• “China is not the enemy, neoliberalism is,” Jacobin (with Qi Hao and Li Zhongjin) May 30, 2020.
• Escaping Shock Therapy: On the Development of the Chinese Economic Model, IPPR 26(1), 99-106, 2019. Italian translation: Pandora Rivista, June 209. German translation: Zeitschrift Luxemburg, December 2019.
• BBC World TV News, Expert Interview, outlook for Chinese economy, March 2019
• BBC Business Live, Expert Interview, China-US trade relations, November 2018

• “How China escaped shock therapy: The market reform debate”, London, New York: Routledge (2021). Named one of the best books of 2021 by Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate and ProMarket. German translation (Suhrkamp), Portuguese translation (Boitempo), Spanish and Russian translations forthcoming. Winner of four international book awards. 
• “Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective” (2024). Industrial and Corporate Change, 33(2), 297–341, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtad080 
• “Systemic cycles of accumulation and chaos in the world capitalist system: a missing link” 2024), Socio-Economic Review, online first, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae007 (with Giorgos Galanis and Christian Koutny)
• “Sellers’ inflation, profits and conflict: why can large firms hike prices in an emergency?” (2023). Review Of Keynesian Economics, 11(2), 183–213. https://doi.org/10.4337/roke.2023.02.05 (with Evan Wasner)
• “The U.S.–China trade imbalance and the theory of free trade: debunking the currency manipulation argument” (2022). International Review of Applied Economics, 35(3–4), 432–455 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003266969 
• “​​Origins of China’s Contested Relation with Neoliberalism: Economics, the World Bank, and Milton Friedman at the Dawn of Reform” (2020). Global Perspectives 1 (1): 12271.https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.12271
• “China and neoliberalism: Moving beyond the China is/is not neoliberal dichotomy” (2019). Cahill, D., Cooper, M., Konings, M. and Primrose, D. (editors), The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism, 219-233.
• “On the necessity of money in an exchange-constituted economy: The cases of Smith and Marx” (2019), Cambridge Journal of Economics, 43(6), 1459-1483 https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bez038

University:

• Organizer, Political Economy Workshop, 2020-2021
• Working Paper Series Coordinator, 2020-2021
• Member of Executive Committee, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019-2020
• Head of Outreach, Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths, 2018-2019
• Member of Management Team, Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths, 2018-2019
• President, Cambridge Society for Social and Economic Development, 2016-2017

Review Service:

• Cambridge Journal of Economics, China Economic History Review (中国经济史研究), Competition and Change, History of Political Economy, International Review of Applied Economics, New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, SAGE, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Profession:

• Co-organizer, The History of Economic Thought Annual Conference, Goldsmiths, 2019
• Organizer, Workshop “Ordoliberalism and the German Economic Model,” Goldsmiths, Political Economy Research Centre, 2019
• Panel Co-Convener, “30 years after 1989: Re-assessing models of market transition,” Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Open University, London, 2019
• Co-Organizer, Post-Keynesian Economics Society Annual Workshop, Goldsmiths, 2018
• Panel Convener, “Great industrialization debates at critical historical and contemporary junctures,” Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Oxford, 2016
• Co-Convener, China Political Economy Seminar, Cambridge, 2016-2017
• Panel Convener, Marxian Economics, Re-Thinking Economics Conference, New York, 2014
• Co-Organizer, Colloquium on the History of Worldly Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, 22 February 2014

• Society for the Advancement of Social Economics; History of Economics Society; Association of Asian Studies; Eastern Economic Association; Union for Radical Political Economics; The British Association for China Studies; Development Studies Association 

• German (native), English (fluent), Chinese (fluent), French (advanced), Thai (basic)

• “Can Price Controls be Optimal? The Economics of the Energy Shock in Germany” (2024), UMass Department of Economics Working Paper Series, 2024-3, Online: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/357/ (with Tom Krebs)
• “Persistence in World Export Patterns and Productive Capabilities Across Two Globalizations” (2022), UMass Department of Economics Working Paper Series, 2022-11, Online: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/328/ (with Gregor Semieniuk, Junshang Liang and Tom Westland)

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