ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell recently joined host Sam Seder to talk Amazon and monopoly power on the popular podcast, “The Majority Report.” Sparked by Stacy’s recent cover story on Amazon in The Nation, Stacy and Sam’s conversation covers Amazon’s role as an infrastructure company, the dramatic shift that occurred in U.S. antitrust policy, and six proposals to rein in today’s monopolies.… Read More
In this episode of the Building Local Power podcast, ILSR co-director and Community-Scaled Economy initiative director Stacy Mitchell sits down with Laura Flanders to discuss the disturbing trend toward a calcified and monopolistic media landscape.… Read More
Experts Stacy Mitchell, Christopher Mitchell, and John Farrell discuss the impact that concentrated economic power has in state legislatures in topics as wide-ranging as high-speed broadband access, electric utilities, and Facebook’s recent Congressional foibles.… Read More
ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell is the guest on the March 24 episode of “This Is Hell,” a longform interview podcast from Chicago’s WNUR. In the episode, “No competition: How Amazon swallowed the economy,” Stacy talks competition, platforms, and Amazon with host Chuck Mertz.… Read More
Marshall Steinbaum, a labor economist and research director at the Roosevelt Institute, sits down with Stacy Mitchell to discuss what is keeping American’s wages low and the prevalence of monopsony in our economy.… Read More
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell was interviewed for the Rising Up with Sonali show for a segment entitled, “Why Amazon’s Quest For Online Dominance Is Destructive,” detailing the growth of Amazon across a number of different sectors.… Read More
In the wake of her in-depth piece on Amazon’s growing economic dominance, ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell was interviewed by The Nation’s Start Making Sense podcast host Jon Wiener. This conversation is a great overview of Mitchell’s work on the subject of Amazon.… Read More
A piece by Nick Leiber explores how cities are using caps on “formula” retailers to ensure that local businesses have ample opportunities to secure space and grow. … Read More
In the News: Stacy Mitchell January 12th, 2018 Media Outlet: The New York Times As the power of Amazon grows, so grows the power of the worlds richest person (or second richest person depending the stock surges), Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff … Read More
