Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
Author of “Anti-fascist Economics” coming 10/20/2026
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Tonight, I’ll be talking about ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with Lina Khan (@linamkhan), Chair of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, at Columbia Law School.
Lina was kind enough to offer an advance blurb for my new book!
🔗 Register to watch live online at the link below.
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I am so thankful for Isabella Weber and this crazy amount of work she is doing to try to save our democracies-economies-lives-world at this dark hour.
Also very happy she gets her own adjective in this interview: "Weberesque." Let's hear it for Weberesque antifascist economics!
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Must read.
VENUE CHANGE!
Due to popular demand, Anti-Fascist Economics with @avilewis & @IsabellaMWeber on Oct 20 has moved to @other_hill (321 Chapel St).
Tickets are back on sale, but will sell out again SOON:
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We need an ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS which puts a floor under people's livelihoods and a ceiling on the extreme concentration of power and wealth.
🔗 Today I am launching my new YouTube channel:
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Publication day in the Kelton household. 💀
Did you see this in the @nytimes ?
Rising Costs Push Necessities Out of Reach for Nearly Half of Americans
Inflation has made basic goods hard to afford and attitudes toward inequality have changed, studies from the Pew Research Center showed.
Economist @IsabellaMWeber has gained international attention and accolades for her ground-breaking ideas on price controls and inflation.
Connect with an #expert# from @UMassAmherst today if you are covering.
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Traditional econ development has been for cities to race to the bottom, offering tax breaks for big corps for meager returns. This is a breath of fresh air: making sure the public shares in the upside of innovation and investment in the future.
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Gas prices are up 34.2% over the last year.
JUST IN: A hot inflation report. Inflation jumped back up to 3.7% (y/y) in September, the highest rate since May. The spike was largely driven by rising gas and diesel prices. Higher airfares and used car prices also triggered the 0.6% monthly gain (biggest since May).
Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, climbed to 2.6% -->This was worse than expected and up from 2.4% in August.
The big problem = Inflation rose 3.7% in the past year, wiping out 3% average wage gains.
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It’s affordability, stupid.
89% of voters for the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt say they are worried that prices rise so much that they can’t pay their bills.
In fact, food prices are up 34.7% since 2021. Wages are lacking far behind & only rose 14.8%.
We need Anti-fascist Economics.
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It’s true that fascists used price controls but so did Allies during WWII. Price controls were key in Roosevelt’s arsenal of democracy.
Price controls are an economic policy tool. Like taxation or fiscal policy they can be designed in good or bad ways. 🧵
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A government that works for people not corporations won against big money once more. Congratulations @AngieNixon!!
Nixon had $975,000 going into the primary, her opponent Vindman $16.3m.
The winning formula: Affordability, good jobs & making billionaires pay. It’s unstoppable.
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If people don’t agree with the prescriptions of mainstream economics, too many economists declare them incompetent. That’s exactly the anti-democratic attitude I’m examining in Anti-fascist Economics!
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Review of Social Economy (was) an important home for heterodox and philosophical economics. The resignation of the exceptional co-editor team of Amitava Krishna Dutt, Lisa Herzog, Natascha van der Zwan, and Roberto Veneziani has been driven by actions of Taylor & Francis which will harm the journal, even if by some miracle an equally impressive set of successors are put in place. This diminishes the economics discipline as a whole.
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hope that our new PM @andyburnham is ready for that Bank of England moment because things are about to get very ugly on inflation front and Bank will bring its usual hammer, rate increases that will hike yields on gilts and general misery
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The biggest gift for an academic is time to do research in peace and quiet. That’s exactly what the Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies offers.
Thrilled to be a fellow for the academic year 2026/2027. I’m back in the German capital!
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Will zombie neoliberalism resign along with Starmer?
Burnham has the decisive shot at anti-fascist economics. The far right is on the doorstep. Reform ahead in the polls. This is the moment to show: there is an alternative (TIA), there always was.
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Refinery margins shooting up like rockets, with the latest uptick in crude prices. This is why we need refinery margin caps as in Austria, instead of subsidies for gas.
Good Morning from #Germany#, where petrol prices are back >€2 per litre even though Brent crude trades at just €77/bbl. One key reason: European gasoline refining margins have surged to an all-time high this week, widening the gap between crude oil and the pump.
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Why Britain’s privatisation experiment is so extraordinary by international standards.
