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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.
Academic Capture

“Uber Has Higher Prices and Worse Service Than the Taxi Industry Had Ten Years Ago”

Asher Schechter
Following the Uber Files leaks, transportation expert Hubert Horan explains why Uber is “hopelessly uneconomic” and how its engagement with policymakers and academics aided...
Academic Capture

Relationships With Academics at the Center of the Uber Files Revelations 

Asher Schechter
The Guardian’s exposé on Uber’s strategy of engaging with top academic researchers to produce corporate-friendly research calls to mind concerns regarding academic lobbying and...
Antitrust and Competition

Can Companies Use Climate Change as an Excuse to Obtain More Market Power? A ProMarket Interview

Guy Rolnik
In an interview with ProMarket, Jürgen Kühling, the chair of Germany’s Monopolies Commission, discusses the relationship between climate change and antitrust, what Germany's reliance...
Antitrust and Competition

DOJ Antitrust Head Jonathan Kanter: “We Are Making It Very Clear: We’re Going to Hold Individuals Accountable”

Guy Rolnik
In an interview with ProMarket, assistant attorney general Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, explains why he believes that the...
Antitrust and Competition

Rep. Ken Buck on the Need for Antitrust Reform: “Big Corporate America Scares People”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Republican congressman Ken Buck explains why antitrust enforcement is so crucial to the US economy and American democracy, expands on...
News

Gabriel Zucman: “I’m a Bit Skeptical That Freezing the Assets of a Few Dozen Oligarchs Can Be Highly Effective”

Asher Schechter
60 percent of the wealth of Russia’s richest 0.01 percent are held offshore. UC Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman explains why blanket sanctions, of the kind...
Antitrust and Competition

The Best Political Economy Books of 2021

Asher Schechter
A scholarly examination of market’s power toll on American workers, the collected works of a pioneering economic thinker, an ambitious narrative of US economic...
Antitrust and Competition

“This Isn’t the Kind of Journalism That Serves Democracy Best”: How Place and Privilege Came to Define American News

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Nikki Usher discusses how news in the US came to be produced and...
Income Inequality

How Insufficient Enforcement Led to Prevalent Tax Evasion and Contributed to American Inequality

Asher Schechter
The prevalence of tax evasion among the top 1 percent of the income distribution is much worse than previously thought, a study by IRS...
Antitrust and Competition

The Profit Paradox: “What’s Good for Firms Is Not Necessarily Good for the Workers”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Jan Eeckhout discusses his new book The Profit Paradox and explains how market power brings down wages, even if...
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