Isabella Weber presents "Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy" in conversation with Osita Nwanevu

Isabella Weber presents *Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy* in a conversation with Osita Nwanevu. Weber examines how inequality, inflation, corporate profiteering, and the affordability crisis can weaken democracy and create conditions for the resurgence of fascist politics. She argues for an economic model that prioritizes people’s needs, dignity, and access to essential goods rather than treating them as secondary to corporate profit.

Drawing on her book, Weber proposes an economics centered on livable conditions, essential production, accountability for corporate power, and international cooperation. She also revisits the work of mid-20th-century economists whose guiding principle was “never again,” adapting their ideas to the present political and economic moment.

When: Thursday, November 19th, 2026

Showtime: 7:00 pm

Venue: Red Emma’s, 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland

Tickets: Price not available

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Featured speaker: Isabella Weber is an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an associate in research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center, and a fellow of the OSF Ideas Workshop. Her research focuses on policy responses to inflation, and she has advised policymakers in the United States, Germany, Europe, and Latin America. Her first book, *How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate*, has been translated into five languages and was named a *Financial Times* best book of the year. Weber has also written for *The New York Times*, *The Financial Times*, *The Washington Post*, and *Foreign Affairs*, and was named to the *Time100 Next*. She holds doctorates in economics from the New School for Social Research and in development studies from the University of Cambridge.

Conversation partner: Osita Nwanevu is a contributing editor at *The New Republic*.

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