Irwin M. Stelzer (born 22 May 1932)[1] is an American economist[2]
who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom and was for The Courier-Mail in Australia. In the United States, he was a contributing editor [3] at The Weekly Standard, and for the American Interest. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.
Stelzer is a consultant on market strategy, pricing and antitrust issues, and regulatory matters for U.S. and United Kingdom industries.[4][5]
He is also an occasional contributor to The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Standpoint, The Critic and the New Statesman. He resides in the United States. Some British politicians and newspapers have vilified Stelzer as Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man, an assertion that Stelzer denies.[6]
Stelzer co-founded National Economic Research Associates, Inc. (NERA) and served as its president from 1961 to 1983. NERA was sold to Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) in 1983 and later became NERA Economic Consulting. Stelzer has served as a managing director of the investment banking firm of Rothschild Asset Management Inc. (U.S.) part of N M Rothschild & Sons. He also has served as a director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at Harvard University.[3][4]
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.[4] He started out by delivering flowers for "25 cents a shot"[8][9]
Former Memberships and affiliations
Visiting Committee, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago[10]
Member, Publication Committee, The Public Interest[3]
Member, Board, Regulatory Policy Institute (Oxford)[3][4]
Member, Advisory Board of The American Antitrust Institute[4]
Stelzer has written and lectured on economic and policy development in the United States and the United Kingdom. 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[4]
Cento G. Veljanovski; M.E. Beesley; S.C. Littlechild; Irwin Stelzer; Sir Alan Peacock; et al. (30 September 1991). Regulators and the Market: An Assessment of Growth of Regulation in the UK. Institute of Economic Affairs. ISBN978-0255362498. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Smith, David (16 October 2004). "'It's crazy to think that I'd threaten Blair'". The Observer. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 4 August 2012. I've been a friend of Mr Murdoch for a very long time... I certainly don't have the position of formulating Mr Murdoch's political views and enforcing them on the British Prime Minister. The notion that I'm an enforcer is so bizarre: I can't tell you how bizarre it is.
