In 1931, he obtained a doctorate in political sciences from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
[2] Hobson in 1937 took over Little Norway, a living museum of a Norwegian village located in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hobson got his first position as research assistant in agriculture economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1914, which he occupied until 1916.
[3] In 1922, Asher Hobson moved to Rome as a U.S. delegate to the International Institute of Agriculture, and in 1929 he returned to Washington D.C. to take the position of consulting economist to the Federal Farm Board.
Beginning in 1948, he was also a member of the Committee of Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry of the United States Senate.