ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell appeared on This Is Hell to talk competition, platforms, and Amazon with host Chuck Mertz.
Monopolies are strangling competition and cutting off opportunity. In this feature for The Nation, we show how to stop them.
Stacy Mitchell's cover story for The Nation looks at how Amazon is a radically new kind of monopoly, and what we should do about it.
In this episode of We the People, ILSR's Stacy Mitchell and Lina Khan join Rep. Ellison to talk about how to take on Amazon.
In this 20-minute talk, ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell looks at why cities need independent businesses, and also at some of the issues that are facing these...
To help city leaders address the challenges facing independent businesses, ILSR organized a workshop at the National League of Cities' City Summit 2017 conference.
ILSR's annual Independent Business Survey gathers data from thousands of locally owned, independent businesses across the country.
In this episode of the Building Local Power podcast, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell sits down with Barry Lynn, head of the Open Markets Institute, to...
Independent businesses are among the best engines that cities have for advancing economic opportunity. But they’re disappearing in many places. This isn’t, in large part,...
This fact sheet breaks down how Amazon is undermining working people — and what we need to do.
Amazon is destroying competition and market diversity, leaving us with fewer choices, less innovation, and diminished opportunities.
Amazon is at the center of increasing inequality and diminishing opportunity, and that it's concentrating power in ways that endanger competition, community, and democracy.
In this report, we argue that anticompetitive behavior by large, dominant corporations is largely to blame for the steep decline in small businesses.
For the first time in 28 years, the Democratic Party platform calls for vigorous, stepped-up enforcement of our anti-monopoly laws.
We look at both the bad and the good fallout from Walmart’s closing of 269 stores.