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Isabella Weber

Isabella M. Weber, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is Climate Policy Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (Routledge, 2021).

Industrial oil platform with a world map painted underneath, symbolising global oil industry.

The World Needs an Oil Buyers’ Club

Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk

As the world is plunged into another energy crisis, market allocation is leading to grossly unjust outcomes, as the rich outbid the poor.

Taking aim at sellers’ inflation

Isabella Weber

Economists and political leaders at multilateral institutions have finally accepted profits are a primary driver of inflation.