Isabella Weber is an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University. Her first book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate, is the winner of numerous academic awards and has been translated into several languages. Her second book on the role of essential sectors for economic stability is under contract with the University of Chicago Press as well as for seven translations. Weber has become a leading voice on policy responses to inflation and has advised policymakers in the United States and Germany on questions of price stabilization. For her public policy work, she has been profiled in the New Yorker and recognized as one of TIME100 Next, Bloomberg‘s 50 Ones to Watch, Germany’s 100 women of 2022, and Capital 40 under 40 lists. She holds a PhD in development studies from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in economics from The New School for Social Research.