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Of most interest in the present context are two theories of the crisis, put forward by R.Brenner and N.Steensgaard, that draw together some or all of the strands in the debate surveyed above. Brenner’s 1976 article pulled together the three currents of economic theories of the crisis—the Marxist, the price-cyclical, and 21the ecological ...
Jan 2, 2010 · The Brenner debate revisited. One of the defining controversies in the field of economic history in the past 35 years is the Brenner debate. Robert Brenner published “Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe” in Past and Present in 1976 (link) and “The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism” in 1982.
Jan 1, 1999 · Abstract Robert Brenner's recent monograph on the economics of global turbulence has renewed interest in one of the most important topics in Marxian thought, the theory of crisis tendencies in capitalism. In their introduction to Brenner's monograph, the editors of New Left Review praise him as a worthy successor to Marx in the strongest possible terms. In the eyes of a number of critics ...
Abstract Marx’s chapters on “primitive accumulation” identify two putative sites of capitalism’s emergence: sixteenth-century expropriation of English peasants and Dutch-led commercial exploitation of the wider world. This article follows up both suggestions. It examines Robert Brenner’s influential attribution of capitalism’s origin to class struggles in the English countryside ...
Aug 17, 2006 · In this work, a revised and newly introduced edition of his acclaimed New Left Review special report, he charts the turbulent post-war history of the global system and unearths the mechanisms of over-production and over-competition which lie behind its long-term crisis since the early 1970s, thereby demonstrating the thoroughly systematic factors behind wage repression, high unemployment and ...
Robert Brenner's recent monograph on the economics of global turbulence has renewed interest in one of the most important topics in Marxian thought, the theory of crisis tendencies in capitalism. In their introduction to Brenner's monograph,
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Oct 27, 2009 · The responses to Brenner's article were of varying character. Since Brenner was attacking what he considered to be a form of demographic determinism in the interpretation of the development of the pre-industrial European agrarian economies (and to a lesser extent a commercial interpretation), some of the earliest responses were from historians whom he designated as “neo-Malthusians”.
