As debates ramp up about how Congress and watchdog agencies should address the monopoly power of Big Tech, ILSR legal fellow Shaoul Sussman argues in the American Prospect that we must prioritize revoking the liability shield these platforms enjoy.… Read More
Stacy Mitchell joined an online discussion with Jason Wiens, policy director for the Kauffman Foundation, and Brandy Bynum Dawson, director of Advocacy for the NC Rural Center about the critical role policy plays for small businesses – especially given the confluence of factors in 2020.… Read More
In Slate, Ron Knox explains that the beer industry is not the craft brewery utopia we like to imagine. Misguided policies have allowed monopolies to dominate the market, creating a bottleneck that undermines small breweries.… Read More
Stacy Mitchell talks to Canadian national radio about how to understand Amazon’s structural power and its consequences, and about the growing momentum in Congress to do something.… Read More
ILSR Legal Fellow Shaoul Sussman and co-author Hal Singer discredit the idea that all businesses behave like Amazon.… Read More
Learn more about ILSR and Stacy Mitchell’s recent work on Amazon in this list of highlights. … Read More
We are thrilled to announce that Kennedy Smith will be joining ILSR in March! Kennedy is one of the nation’s foremost experts on commercial district revitalization and independent business development. She’ll bring her considerable expertise and experience to the position of Senior Researcher with ILSR’s Independent Business Initiative. Her work will focus on analyzing the factors … Read More
FRONTLINE has drawn on ILSR’s research and interviews with co-director Stacy Mitchell to create a powerful documentary on the reign of Amazon.… Read More
