[Salon] Isabella Weber: Preventing Inflation to Save Democracy

  • 08/12/2024
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Full Circle House, 89 Ch. de Vleurgat, 1050 Ixelles
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ISABELLA WEBER HAS CANCELLED HER TRIP TO BRUSSELS DUE TO ILL HEALTH.

WE WILL RESCHEDULE WHEN SHE IS ABLE TO TRAVEL

PREVENTING INFLATION TO SAVE DEMOCRACY

A salon with Isabella Weber

 Ideas  / Sun 8th Dec/ 5.00 - 7:00 pm

Doors open at 4.30pm. The speaker will start at 5pm

Isabella Weber argues that in our age of overlapping emergencies - climate, migration, pandemics, regional wars - threats to supply chains are becoming commonplace. Each threat brings the risk of inflation and the potential for some companies to make enormous profits while many workers face enduring hardship, even in full time work. Such shocks risk destabilising  governments and societies.  We need new means of protecting our society and democracy. Come and hear Isabella Weber's plans for how to do it.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Political economist Isabella Weber is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, an Associate in Research at Harvard University, and a Fellow of the OSF Ideas Workshop. She works on policy responses to inflation and has advised policymakers in the US and Germany on price stabilization measures. She is seen as one of 2024 top thinkers, however she has also challenged economic orthodoxies and the economic establishment has previously called her ideas were called 'perverse' and 'certainly wrong' by the economic establishment. Until in February 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Suddenly, with energy prices spiralling, policymakers started taking Weber’s work seriously: around the world they imposed price caps or new regulation in response to surging costs. Her next book, ESSENTIAL: Inflation, Profits and Survival in an Age of Emergencies, will be published in 2026, and will be translated into seven languages. Her  book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate won several prizes and award, and entered many best book lists of 2021. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, Project Syndicate, die ZEIT and Süddeutsche Zeitung.


GOOD READS

ESSENTIAL: Inflation, Profits and Survival in an Age of Emergencies, (2026 forthcoming);  How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (2021).


KEY LINKS

Isabella's website 

Interview with Isabella Weber

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