Irwin Stelzer

Irwin M. Stelzer (born 1932) is an American economist who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for the Sunday Times, the Courier-Mail, and a contributing editor of the Weekly Standard. 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 vilified Stelzer as Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man, an assertion that Stelzer denies.