Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University, and a Fellow of the OSF Ideas Workshop. I work on policy responses to inflation and have advised policymakers in the US, Germany, Europe and Latin America on price stabilization measures. My next book, ESSENTIAL: Inflation, Profits and Survival in an Age of Emergencies, will be translated into seven languages. My first book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate won the Joan Robinson Prize, Keynes Preis and the Hans-Matthöfer Preis and the International Studies Association Best Interdisciplinary Book Award. It was translated into five languages and featured on the best book of 2021 lists by the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate and Folha de S.Paulo, among others. My writings have appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung. For my public policy work, I have been recognized as one of Time 100 Next, Bloomberg 50 Ones to Watch, Marketwatch 50, Fokus 100 Women of the Year, Manager Magazin 100 Women in Business and Economics, Capital 40 under 40 and Wirtschaftsmagazin 30 thinkers for 2030. I am a publisher of Surplus, a German economics magazine. I was the principal investigator of the ESRC-funded Rebuilding Macroeconomics project What Drives Specialization? A Century of Global Export Patterns. I have a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research, New York, and a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. I have been a visiting researcher at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and speak Chinese fluently.