The People Powering Amazon's Trickle-Down Monopoly

<p>Amazon is one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies. Yet one of the engines of its might is largely invisible to customers- its vast network of millions of third party sellers. In today’s episode we talk with <strong>Moira Weigel</strong>, an Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Northeastern University and the author of a recent report for Data &amp; Society, <a href="https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Amazon's Trickle Down Monopoly: Third Party Sellers and the Transformation of Small Businesses</em></a>. For the report, Weigel spent a good amount of time trying to understand experience of the people operating the small businesses that power Amazon’s global expansion.&nbsp;</p>