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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

"The Lack of Competition Has Deprived American Workers of $1.25 Trillion of Income"

Asher Schechter
French economist Thomas Philippon, author of the recent The Great Reversal, explains how Europe got to be better at free markets than the US and how...
Antitrust and Competition

Benjamin Netanyahu Sided With Israel's Oligarchs — and It Led to His Downfall

Asher Schechter
The indictment against Israel’s prime minister exposes an entire ecosystem of institutionalized corruption, one which has been in place long before Netanyahu came to...
Antitrust and Competition

The Humbling of Mark Zuckerberg

Asher Schechter
Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony this week illustrated just how much Facebook's top brass still underestimate the public anger against the company. Congress, however, is still...
Income Inequality

“Avoiding Plutocracy Would Require a Political Change”: Branko Milanovic on the Future of Capitalism

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, CUNY Graduate Center economist Branko Milanovic discussed the differences and similarities between US-style and China-style capitalism and explained why,...
Antitrust and Competition

The Cost of America’s Oligopoly Problem

Asher Schechter
An innovative new study finds substantial, increasing deadweight losses resulting from oligopolistic behavior and points to the important role that startup acquisitions—particularly by large...
Antitrust and Competition

Did Facebook and Google “Blackmail” EU Experts to Avoid Discussing Their Market Power?

Asher Schechter
A new report by the journalist network Investigate Europe claims representatives of Facebook and Google pressured members of an EU working group on fake...
Antitrust and Competition

“Facebook Is Unaccountable to Shareholders, to its Users, to Government”

Asher Schechter
At the Stigler Center’s annual competition conference, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes called for the unwinding of Facebook’s WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions and the creation...
Academic Capture

“Economics Now Points Away From the Laissez-Faire Approach”

Asher Schechter
Columbia professor Suresh Naidu on Economics for Inclusive Prosperity, the new initiative he launched with Dani Rodrik and Gabriel Zucman, and why he believes...
Antitrust and Competition

The “Biggest Puzzle in Economics”: Why the “Superstar Economy” Lacks Any Actual Superstars

Asher Schechter
A new study finds that the contribution of superstar firms to US productivity growth has decreased by more than 40 percent over the past...
Antitrust and Competition

“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”

Asher Schechter
Columbia law professor Tim Wu on The Curse of Bigness, neo-Brandeisian antitrust, and the lessons we should learn from the first Gilded Age. Four...
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