Robert Brenner

Robert Brenner is Visiting Professor in the Department of
Economics at the New School University and author of many books and papers on
the early development of capitalism and the current economic crisis. The
Brenner Debate on the origins of capitalism to this day remains seminal on
this topic. More recently his work –The
Boom and the Bubble: the US in the World Economy (London, Verso, 2002)
and Economics of Global
Turbulence(London, Verso, 2006)–has focused on
the fundamental contradictions of contemporary capitalism. His most recent book
is The Political Economy of the Rank and File Rebellion in Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and
Revolt from Below during the Long 1970s eds. A. Brenner et. al. (London,
Verso, 2010)