Inflation Kills Governments
Economist Isabella Weber explains where the inflation surge came from and why the Biden administration struggled to beat it.
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Illustration by Emma Erickson.
Over the course of my hour-long conversation with Isabella Weber, the University of Massachusetts Amherst economist continued to resist the urge to say, “I told you so.” But such a declaration would have been well warranted. With just days to go in 2021, Weber made waves both inside and outside the academy with the publication […]