Isabella M. Weber is an economist working on inflation, China, global trade and the history of economic thought. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Berggruen Fellow, and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University. Her first book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate is the winner of the Joan Robinson Prize 2021 and the International Studies Association Best Interdisciplinary Book Award. She has become a leading voice on policy responses to inflation and has advised policy-makers in the United States and Germany on questions of price stabilisation. She is on the editorial board of the Review of Political Economy and on the advisory board of Environment and Planning.