Capitalism became more exploitative in the wake of sellers' inflation and Trump made sure it stayed that way. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Another Guardian story on Substack hosting Nazi newsletters. Here's something I wish more academics knew: There's a Cambrian explosion happening in atproto world. Where your data is yours. New apps every week. Including @leaflet.pub, a blogging platform, newsletter functionality coming soon. 1/3

Trump has made China great again. The question of the economics of China's success is back. The key is China's mastery of managing change. For How China Escaped Shock Therapy I interviewed key intellectuals & officials who shaped China's approach to economic system reform.

Court filing: Tech companies used large-scale shadow libraries of pirated book downloads to teach their AI models "how to write well." wapo.st/4rjXAMQ (🎁 link via Washington Post)

new paper so fresh it doesn't have an issue # yet! Noya Kohavi and I looked at a crowdsourced AI testing suite and analyzed how contributors’ ideas about language, intelligence & cognition play a surprisingly big role in shaping how LLMs are tested, and what we think AI is. doi.org/10.1111/jola...

Große Freude, dass Isabella Weber die Karl Polanyi Gastprofessur in Wien antritt. Die international renommierte Ökonomin wird die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche und -politische Debatte in 🇦🇹 bereichern. Öffentlicher Vortrag am 24.6. in der VHS Praterstern! Herzlich Willkommen in Wien, liebe Isabella!

Underappreciated fact: The Great Transformation studies the rise of fascism. I have learned so much from revisiting this classic for my work on anti-fascist economics. Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!

Ein breites Bündnis appelliert für eine Schuldenbremsen-Reform Sie fordern: Zukunftsinvestitionen & staatliche Handlungsfähigkeit sichern Finanzpolitische Schieflage von unbegrenzten Mittlen für Verteidigung & Einschnitten bei Sozialem und Klimaschutz überwinden fiscalfuture.de/de/sonstiges...

Globalization produced a global hierarchy in economic complexity under both 19th century style imperialism & neoliberalism. What countries exported at the turn of the 20th ct still matters for what they exported at peak globalization. The vast majority chase behind rather than catching up.

Delighted to be giving today's seminar at Harvard's Growth Lab on "The world is not flat: Persistence in the hierarchy of economic complexity across a century" with @isabellamweber.bsky.social, Junshang Liang, @tomwestland.bsky.social Live 10am ET at: growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-wo...

Found this paper/thread to be an excellent explainer on the real-world effects bsky.app/profile/isab...

Carney: The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. Its fragility comes from the same source. We participated in the rituals, & avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric & reality. This bargain no longer works.

China understood in the early 1990s at the latest that relying on fossil fuels was a dead end in terms of geopolitics for a country with limited domestic supplies. Going green was the only way. It took Europe until 2026. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Die gleichen Preise treiben die Inflation und die Ungleichheit: Grundbedürfnisse wie Energie, Lebensmittel und Wohnen sind entscheidend. Daraus folgt: Wenn Regierungen diese Preise stabilisieren, schlagen sie zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe: Inflation & Ungleichheit.

No one should trust markets alone when it comes to food. Agricultural commodity prices have always been volatile and are bound to become even more erratic amidst the polycrisis. Great to see @theguardian.com endorse our work on stabilizing supply & prices. Link: peri.umass.edu/publication/...

Accepting European peripheralization is the only way. Europe has to finally join forces with the Global South instead of relapsing into imperialist gesturing. In a world of super power blocs, you are no more super power, Europe, and that is your chance.

@isabellamweber.bsky.social und Kollegen zeigen: Zwischen den Treibern der Inflation und der Ungleichheit gibt es große Überschneidungen. Von @maxhsr.bsky.social

#SupplyShocks Good to see @theguardian.com cite @isabellamweber.bsky.social in an editorial on food security www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To celebrate my appointment as the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics & Philosophy at LSE Law School & the School of Public Policy, I'll give an inaugural lecture entitled “Are Revolutions Justified?”. Registration required - look forward to seeing many of you! ❤️ lselaw.events/event/are-re...

As expected.

Henry A Wallace, The Danger of American Fascism, 1944

Ich möchte euch an dieser Stelle dazu auffordern zur Vorsorgeuntersuchung zu gehen und auch euren Hormonstatus checken zu lassen und ein Blutbild zu machen. Nehmt euch die Zeit. Ich habe es ein Jahr vertrödelt und dann war es Krebs. Besser man ist da früher dran.

Electric vehicles with off-grid solar are competitive with or cheaper than old style petrol/gaslone vehicles in many African countries before 2030; and cheaper in all countries by 2040 - often by a wide margin. That's even allowing for (high) financing costs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Too few people are talking about the blood on Elon Musk's hands. When DOGE slashed foreign aid, it wasn't just numbers on a screen. It was insulin, food, and antibiotics being ripped away from the world's poorest children. Musk is responsible for the death of thousands

The financial industry is a major road block for climate change mitigation. Our research shows the beneficiaries of sticking with fossil capital: the super rich. Great to see our chart republished by the Balanced Economy Project! Link to full paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some prices matter much more than others for livelihoods, production and distribution. They are systemically significant and key in the fight for affordability and against inflation. So proud to win the Nelson & Freeman Prize for our paper! Thank you ICC! 🥳 academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@isabellamweber.bsky.social mit einer wichtigen Erinnerung, um wessen US-Interessen es Trump beim Thema Öl geht.

With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My PhD supervisor always said that inflation is everywhere and always redistributionary.

"a [price] shock to food generates inflation 126% higher for the poorest than the richest" Weber et al show the re-distributional effects of inflation

And as @isabellamweber.bsky.social shows, it disproportionately affects people who are at the lower end of the income distribution.

Another good piece on the disconnect between the economic data that's usually cited & the lived reality of most people

Die Klassendimension von Inflation:

Great to see this follow-up to the systemically significant prices paper. Bringing good news: Many of the sectors most decisive for supply-driven inflation are 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 the main inequality drivers. Meaning two birds, one stone!* *For monetary policymakers open to sectoral price stabilization measures.

@isabellamweber.bsky.social has been putting out some of the very best scholarship since the economic woes of Covid-era times. Another banger 👇

GREAT thread here. H/t @nathantankus.bsky.social

Fascinating approach to linking inequality to sector based inflation.

This paper looks really good. It also brings up the issue with treating price increases as a unitary phenomena under the guise of "Inflation" as measured by CPI or some other aggregate price index. www.crisesnotes.com/are-general-...

Sehr wichtiges Papier zu Teuerungskrise und Verteilungseffekten in den USA und lesenswerte Kurzfassung im Thread von @isabellamweber.bsky.social

This is also about who companies think buys their products and how we all end up paying for that decision prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart. It’s always been about the prices of essentials.

"[I]f history were to repeat itself and we were to return to the so-called "normalcy" of the 1920's—then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on the battlefields abroad, we shall have yielded to the spirit of Fascism here at home." Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944

Neue Studie des @dezim-institut.de „Importierter Antisemitismus? Empirische Befunde zu antisemitischen Einstellungen in Dland"! Neben der wichtigen Empirie fällt besonders folgender Befund ins Auge: Wer der "Importthese" zustimmt, zeigt häufiger antisemitische, aber auch muslimfeindliche Haltungen

Today, I’m excited to announce the first major policy solution of our campaign: a concrete plan to break the power of corporate monopolies and build the next generation of public options.

Public options are key for solving the affordability crisis, an essential ingredient of antifascist economic policy. @avilewis.ca is bringing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.socials winning playbook to Canada. It’s a global movement. The NDP could play an important part. My Take: bsky.app/profile/isab...

Sehr spannendes Gespräch mit @isabellamweber.bsky.social zu aktuellen Fragen der Wirtschaftspolitik: Von billigem Strom über aktive Industriepolitik bis zu Maßnahmen gegen die Teuerungskrise.

Es war mir eine Ehre! Hoffentlich bald wieder. Die SPÖ hat das Thema *leistbares Leben* zentral gesetzt lang bevor Affordability das Schlagwort des Momentes wurde.