Articles by Robert Brenner

• Structure vs Conjuncture
  • Robert Brenner

  in NLR 43, January-February 2007, pp. 33-59
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , United States
  

  Robert Brenner reads the US mid-term results against deeper structural shifts in the American polity. The rise of the Republican right seen in the context of the long downturn and dismantling of the liberal compact: from New Deal and Great Society to the capitalist offensive under Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

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• New Boom or New Bubble?
  • Robert Brenner

  in NLR 25, January-February 2004, pp. 57-100
  Subjects: United States , Economic Policy
  

  The shape of the US economy as it emerges from recession, in election year. With the giant manufacturing sector still crippled by over-capacity, can the take-off be sustained by bubble-driven finance, retail and construction booms?

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• The Boom and the Bubble
  • Robert Brenner

  in NLR 6, November-December 2000, pp. 5-43
  Subjects: United States , World Economy and Globalization , Economic Policy
  

  In the last four years, the US economy has posted its best performance since the sixties. What is the connexion between the formidable boom in the real economy and the historically unprecedented bubble on the stock market? Could the inflation of asset values far beyond the rise in corporate earnings be preparing a Japanese-style nemesis?

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• The Economics of Global Turbulence (Special Issue)
  • Robert Brenner

  in NLR I/229, May-June 1998, pp. 1-265
  Subjects: Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

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• The Regulation Approach: Theory and History
  • Robert Brenner &
  • Mark Glick

  in NLR I/188, July-August 1991, pp. 45-119
  Subjects: Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

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• Why is the United States at War with Iraq?
  • Robert Brenner

  in NLR I/185, January-February 1991, pp. 122-137
  Subjects: United States , War and Peace , Iraq
  

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• Reply to Sweezy
  • Robert Brenner

  in NLR I/108, March-April 1978, pp. 95-96
  Subjects: Economic Theory , History and Historiography
  

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• The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism
  • Robert Brenner

  in NLR I/104, July-August 1977, pp. 25-92
  Subjects: Economic Theory , History and Historiography
  

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