Irwin Stelzer

Irwin M. Stelzer (born 22 May 1932) is an American economist who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom, The Courier-Mail in Australia and The Weekly Standard in the United States, at the latter of which he has been a contributing editor. Stelzer is a consultant on market strategy, pricing and antitrust issues, and regulatory matters for U.S. and United Kingdom industries. He is also an occasional contributor to The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman. He resides in London and the United States. Some British politicians and newspapers have vilified Stelzer as Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man, an assertion that Stelzer denies.

Academic career

Stelzer received both his BA degree and his MA degree from New York University. At Cornell University he earned a Ph.D. in economics. He has had teaching appointments at Cornell University, the University of Connecticut, and New York University and he has also been a teaching member of Columbia University’s Continuing Legal Education Programs. He has been elected a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a former member of the Litigation and Administrative Practice Faculty of the Practising Law Institute. He served on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Committee for the Department of Economics.

Professional career

Stelzer founded National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA) and served as its president from 1961 to 1983. NERA became NERA Economic Consulting and was sold to Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC). Stelzer has served as a managing director of the investment banking firm of Rothschild Asset Management Inc. (USA) part of N M Rothschild & Sons. He also has served as a director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at Harvard University. He is a signatory of the Henry Jackson Society, a senior director and fellow of the Hudson Institute and has edited and introduced a book on neoconservatism. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Prior to joining the Hudson Institute in 1998, Dr. Stelzer was resident scholar and director of regulatory policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Stelzer received his bachelor and master-of-arts degrees from New York University and his doctorate in economics from Cornell University. He started out by delivering flowers for "25 cents a shot"

Memberships and affiliations

• Visiting Committee, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago
• Member, Publication Committee, The Public Interest
• Member, Board, Regulatory Policy Institute (Oxford)
• Member, Advisory Board of The American Antitrust Institute
• Advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative
• Cosmos Club, Metropolitan Club, Reform Club

Publications

Stelzer has written and lectured on economic and policy development in the United States and Britain. He has written extensively on policy issues such as America’s competitive position in the world economy, optimum regulatory policies, the consequences of European integration, and factors affecting and impeding economic growth. He has served as economics editor of the Antitrust Bulletin

• Carbon Taxes: An opportunity for Conservatives, Washington: Hudson Institute, 2011.

“Antitrust and the Hospitals”, National Affairs, Number 5, Fall 2015

External links

• Biography, Articles and Publications at the Hudson Institute
• Profile at SourceWatch
• Video of lecture given at Edinburgh University in 2002 on Adam Smith
• Appearances on C-SPAN