Irwin M. Stelzer (born 22 May 1932) is an American
economist
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who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for ''
The Sunday Times
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'' in the
United Kingdom
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and was for ''
The Courier-Mail
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'' in
Australia. In the
United States
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, he was a contributing editor
at ''
The Weekly Standard
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, and is a contributing editor for the American Interest''. He is Director of Economic Policy Studies 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.
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He is also an occasional contributor to ''
The Guardian
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'', the ''Daily Telegraph, Standpoint'' and the ''
New Statesman
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''. He resides in the United States. Some British politicians and newspapers have vilified Stelzer as
Rupert Murdoch
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'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
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, the
University of Connecticut
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, and
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
and he has also been a teaching member of
Columbia University
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’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
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. He served on the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Visiting Committee for the Department of Economics.
Professional career
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
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, 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
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. He also has served as a director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at
Harvard University
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.
He is a signatory of the
Henry Jackson Society
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, a senior director and fellow of the
Hudson Institute and has edited and introduced a book on
neoconservatism
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. 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
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.
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 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''
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* Carbon Taxes: An opportunity for Conservatives, Washington: Hudson Institute, 2011.
* “Antitrust and the Hospitals”, ''National Affairs'', Number 5, Fall 2015
* Later publications, sorted by topic, are available on the web site, www.irwinstelzer.com
References
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External links
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Biography, Articles and Publications at the Hudson InstituteProfileat
SourceWatch
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History
CMD was founded in 1993 by prog ...
Video of lecture given at Edinburgh University in 2002 on Adam Smith*
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1932 births
American columnists
American economists
Cornell University alumni
Hudson Institute
Living people
The Weekly Standard people