Susan R. Holmberg is a political economist and Associate Director for Research with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Independent Business Initiative. She writes on corporate power and inequality and has been published in The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, and The Nation.
Previously, Susan worked as Research Director and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute in New York, Program Director at the Center for Popular Economics in Massachusetts, Research Analyst at the Center for Rural Studies in Vermont, and Research Assistant at the Political Economy Research Institute at UMass, Amherst.
Susan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UMass, Amherst.
Reach Susan by email at sholmberg [at] ilsr [dot] org.
Dollar stores are not merely byproducts of economic distress; they are a cause of it. Through predatory tactics, chain dollar stores are killing off grocery...
Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg argue that the left should embrace small business again; it is crucial to reversing inequality and rescuing democracy.
ILSR submitted a comment letter to the FTC and DOJ that describes private equity firms' tactics and how they hurt small businesses.
The groundbreaking report illustrates that racial disparity is not merely an outcome of monopoly power but a means by which corporations attain it.