Irwin Stelzer

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Irwin M. Stelzer (born 1932) is an American economist. He is the U.S. economic and business columinst for The Sunday Times (UK), The Courier-Mail and a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard. He has served as a managing director of the investment banking firm of Rothschild Inc and was founder and president of National Economic Research Associates, Inc which became NERA Economic Consulting. 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. Prior to joining the Hudson Institute, 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.^{[citation needed]}

He has been criticized by contemporaries and commentators such as journalist William Shawcross et al for following Rupert Murdoch's neoconservative editorial bias, particularly comments that push the business and political line of News Corporation and those held by Murdoch personally.^{[citation needed]}