Her op-ed published in The Guardian in December 2021[3] caused an uproar among economists,[4] some of whom, including Paul Krugman, have since apologized and become open to price caps.

[5] In additional to price caps and strict anti-price gouging legislation to combat inflation, she also supports windfall profit taxes.

[4] Paul Krugman strongly criticized the op-ed but apologized during the peak of the fracas[9] and since changed his position on price caps, arguing they might be a useful inflation management tool.

[4] The British magazine Prospect called Weber "prescient", praising her "willingness to challenge economic orthodoxies with robust, historically informed analysis".

[11][12] In 2022, Weber was a member of the German government's gas price commission, an expert advisory group of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.