Isabella M Weber
@IsabellaMWeber
EconProf @UMass | "cost-shock queen" FT | Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prize | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
Ha-Joon Chang at his best!: "Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned ... This is not education. It’s indoctrination." ft.com/content/9aabb4…
To understand how @ZohranKMamdani won the mayoral primary by a full 12 points last month, it helps to understand how tenants like Ferdousi Begum and Parveg Hasan decided to go on the offensive against real estate. My first for @nybooks, learned so much! nybooks.com/online/2025/07…
Thank you to everyone who's reached out to tell me how I did on The Abundance Dig since I am afflicted with an audio processing disorder where I can't listen to myself on podcasts 🙏 thedigradio.com/podcast/actual…
Amazing episode
The Abundance debate and discussion you didn’t know you needed w @IsabellaMWeber, @BigMeanInternet, @PEWilliams_. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. Bringing light, not heat. Link below👇
Like Greenbelt during the New Deal, our neighbors in Montgomery County are experimenting with new public development & ownership models to address housing needs. We should work w/ the County & State to bring that model here. Thanks @DanielDenvir for another great episode!
The Abundance debate and discussion you didn’t know you needed w @IsabellaMWeber, @BigMeanInternet, @PEWilliams_. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. Bringing light, not heat. Link below👇
Abundance for the many is about making essentials affordable by all means necessary. Great conversation about the need for a new economic policy agenda that goes beyond removing blockages and waiting for corporations to do the rest. @BigMeanInternet @PEWilliams_ @DanielDenvir
New working paper with Engelbert Stockhammer and Ben Tippet: "What goes up, must come down. Speculation-encouraging institutions and house price cycles across countries". (1/6) postkeynesian.net/media/working-…
The content of my thoughts is now an object in the world!! Thank you, thank you to everyone who supported the research or supported the writing or supported me & the research & the writing - I’m so grateful & happy & can’t wait to celebrate the release with you all on 4 Sept😍🐥!
The best take on this conversation I've come across so far. Important stuff here for @JEChalmers to think about, ahead of his roundtable. TL;DR - head to ~40:00. Private capital chases profit, not the provision of essentials!
Abundance for the many is about making essentials affordable by all means necessary. Great conversation about the need for a new economic policy agenda that goes beyond removing blockages and waiting for corporations to do the rest. @BigMeanInternet @PEWilliams_ @DanielDenvir
Wenn Leute wie #Linnemann von Mut zu Reformen sprechen, geht es meist um Kürzungen im Sozialen, von denen sie selbst gar nicht betroffen sind. Was genau ist daran mutig? Mutig wäre, sich mit den Reichen für eine wirklich solidarische Finanzierung unsere Sozialstaates anzulegen.
Die wirtschaftliche Stimmung in Deutschland verbessert sich, aber der nächste Herbst wird entscheidend, macht Generalsekretär Carsten #Linnemann im ntv Frühstart deutlich: „Das müssen wir jetzt nutzen, um Schub zu bekommen, damit wir wieder wachsen.“ Es braucht Mut, um die…
The SPD parliamentary group have called on the German government to join the other 28 European states calling for an end to the “war in Gaza” and to suspend the EU Israel Association Agreement
This near-daily shooting and killing of people who are being starved by the Israeli government is a horrific crime that we must stop. The Washington Post news headline today: "79 Gazans killed waiting for food after Israeli troops open fire, medics say..."…
The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
In media, there are vast rewards for moving right - status, job security, media platforms. Doing the opposite incurs pain - defunding, deplatforming, denigration, job insecurity. Not surprisingly, many go for the reward, not the pain. It's why this kind of story is so banal.…
Dem Konjunkturschub durch das expansive Finanzpaket drohen empfindliche Dämpfer durch den deutschen Strukturreform-Dogmatismus, schreibt @AchimTruger surplusmagazin.de/strukturreform…
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
😱 Surplus schießt den Vogel ab? 😱 Nein, nicht physisch, nur metaphorisch – meint jedenfalls die Süddeutsche: »Überhaupt konnten diese Magazine gleich auf den ersten Metern erstaunlich viele erstklassige Autoren für sich gewinnen.(…) Den Vogel schießt in dieser Hinsicht aber…
Pure evil
We're taking action to stop migrants working illegally as food delivery drivers.