Analysis reveals Amazon's contracts undermine procurement safeguards while independent suppliers offer better prices, service, and transparency.
ILSR and 15 Small Business Rising partners co-hosted a briefing exposing predatory tactics used by large corporations to bully suppliers into providing illegal pricing deals.
In Inequality, Ron Knox analyzes the recent settlement in FTC's "Dark Patterns" case against Amazon.
ILSR and allies intervened in an antitrust lawsuit to ensure that the Robinson-Patman Act can continue to be used to prevent retail discrimination and unfairness.
An ILSR event with independent business associations exploring how your business can stand up to big corporate power and level the playing field.
Ron Knox’s advocacy and analysis have helped allies push California towards crucial reforms to its antitrust law, the Cartwright Act.
In The American Prospect, Ron Knox outlines some recent local wins against corporate monopolies like Live Nation and Amazon.
Motion seeks to reveal details of complaint alleging PepsiCo gave preferential pricing to big-box retailer while harming independent grocers and consumers.
Ron Knox testified in support of a proposed bill that would strictly prohibit corporations from using monopoly power to abuse workers, small businesses and consumers.
ILSR hosted a congressional briefing featuring antitrust experts, small business owners, and lawmakers to hear about unfair corporate pricing practices that are squeezing small businesses.
99% Invisible, with Stacy Mitchell's help, devotes an episode to the relationship between food deserts and the federal government's abandonment of Robison-Patman Act enforcement.
Ron Knox explains the rise of trustbusting at the state level in the face of federal regulatory chaos.
Ron Knox explores the implications of the FTC's decision, under Chair Andrew Ferguson, to drop a case alleging Pepsico violated the Robinson-Patman Act.
At a conference inspired by her work, Stacy Mitchell delivers a talk about how abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement leads to food deserts.
What if we changed monopoly utility governance to give consumers more control over utility decisions?