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Asher Schechter

ProMarket's former deputy managing editor. As a journalist, he has mostly covered issues related to the intersection between politics and the economy, such as antitrust, corruption, lobbying and social movements. Prior to joining the Stigler center, he worked for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz-TheMarker, where he was a senior features writer and still writes as a political columnist. He is the author of Rothschild: The Story of a Protest Movement (2012, Hakibbutz Hameuhad-Sifriat Poalim Publishing Group), a nonfiction book covering Israel’s social protests of 2011, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper (New York Hub). He previously hosted The Cost of Doing Business, a twice-weekly podcast about business and economics in Israel. You can follow him on Twitter at @asherschechter.
Antitrust and Competition

New Study Shows Just How Bad the US Labor Market’s Competition Problem Really Is

Asher Schechter
In recent decades, antitrust policy has all but ignored the issue of monopsony power. Yet a new paper shows that across the US economy,...
Regulatory Capture

Have Business Schools Lost Their Way? Duff McDonald Talks HBS and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite

Asher Schechter
Harvard Business School is the largest business school in the world, but is it fulfilling its founding mission of educating businesspeople who "handle their...
Health Care

The Secret Driver of US Health Care Costs: Politicians Wanting to Get Reelected

Asher Schechter
A pioneering new study provides a first-of-its-kind look into the outsized effect that lobbying and political maneuverings have on health care spending. Americans spend significantly more...
Rent seeking

Mickey Mouse Turns 89 This Week—But Will He Ever Appear in the Public Domain?

Asher Schechter
Walt Disney Co.’s efforts to protect its copyright over the famous anthropomorphic mouse are the subject of a new Stigler Center case study.     This Sunday...
Antitrust and Competition

UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”

Asher Schechter
A new study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development argues: The “endemic rent-seeking that stems from market concentration, heightened corporate power,...
Money in Politics

"What’s Happening in the U.S. and in European Countries Is a Reaction Against the Political Class"

Asher Schechter
"Despite some specifics on the national level, I would say that all the populist regimes and leaders share common characteristics," says José Ugaz, the...
Money in Politics

“There Are Good Grounds for Being Very Cynical About Western Elites”

Asher Schechter
Ahead of his visit to the Stigler Center on October 25, Edward Luce, Washington columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Retreat of...
Money in Politics

The Only Viable Option for Resisting Populist Plutocrats: “Put the Leader Aside – Address Their Supporters"

Asher Schechter
The only viable option for resisting populist plutocrats is “to put the leader aside and look at how you can address their supporters," says...
Antitrust and Competition

Mergers Are Bad for Innovation

Asher Schechter
Mergers tend to reduce overall innovation, making consumers “always worse off after a merger," says Tommaso Valletti, the European Commission’s Chief Competition Economist. As competition authorities...
Money in Politics

How to Defeat Populist Plutocrats? “Build a Counter-Narrative”

Asher Schechter
Beppe Severgnini, one of the most influential journalists in Italy, talks to ProMarket about what the U.S. can learn from Italy on how to defeat...
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