Stacy Mitchell

Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She directs its initiative to decentralize economic power and level the playing field for independent businesses. She has produced many influential reports and articles, designed local and federal policies, and collaborated to build effective coalitions and campaigns.

One in Four Local Banks Has Vanished Since 2008. Why We Should Treat It as a National Crisis

By Stacy Mitchell, YES! magazine

Here’s a statistic that ought to alarm anyone interested in rebuilding local economies and redirecting the flow of capital away from Wall Street and toward more productive ends

May 8, 2015

Why Local Ownership Matters

By Brian Emerson, Stacy Mitchell, Local Bites

In this episode, Local Bites interviews Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance to talk about the multiple social, economic and environmental benefits of local business ownership and community-scaled financial institutions.

May 1, 2014

The bookstore after Borders: Protecting creativity from consolidation

By Stacy Mitchell, YES! magazine

The wave of chain store consolidation now underway adds new urgency to calls for a reinvigorated antitrust policy and a return to the idea that a competitive economy is one made up of lots of competitors, many of them small and independent.

August 3, 2011

Seeding small business: 5 Ideas from Detroit

By Stacy Mitchell, YES! magazine

At the end of my visit, I came away feeling that Detroit has quite a bit to teach the rest of us about how to build a local economy from the ground up.

January 11, 2011