Quien Robert Brenner

Quien es Robert Brenner

Robert Brenner nace en Nueva York el 28 de noviembre de 1943; se graduó, 1964-1968, en la Universidad de Princeton, doctorándose en 1970 en la misma universidad con la tesis Political Conflict and Commercial Development: The Merchant Community in Civil War in London.

En la actualidad y desde 1983, es catedrático del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de UCLA, y, desde 1987, director del Centro de Teoría Social e Historia Comparada en la misma Universidad. Asimismo, ha sido profesor invitado en varias universidades, entre ellas Harvard, y ha recibido numerosos premios.

Robert Brenner mantiene una militancia política bastante activa como miembro de la organización Solidarity de origen trotskista

Es un autor bastante prolífico, algunas de sus obras más relevantes son:

1. ·         The Boom and the Bubble, New Left Review, new series, no.6 (Nov-Dec 2000). Spanish Translation: (Argentina).
2. ·         The Low Countries in the Transition to Capitalism , in Peasants into Farmers? The Transformation of Rural Economy and Society in the Low Countries (Middle Ages-19th century) In Light of the Brenner Debate, edited by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Brussels: Brepols, 2001.
3. ·         The World Economy at the Turn of the Millennium: Toward Boom or Crisis? Review of International Political Economy, VIII:1 (Spring 2001).
4. ·         The Boom and the Bubble. The US in the World Economy. London: Verso Press, 2002. Español: Akal: Madrid, 2002.
5. ·         The Divergence of England from China’s Yangzi Delta: Property Relations, Microeconomics, and Patterns of Development, 1500-1850 (co-authored with Chris Isett), Journal of Asian Studies, LI, 2 (May 2002).
6. ·         The World Economy at the End of the Boom: A Diagnosis, presented at conference on “Contemporary World Capitalism,“ co-sponsored by the China Academy of Social Sciences and the Renmin University of China, April 2002. Published in: Review of Political Economy  
7. ·         The Trajectory of the Manufacturing Rate of Profit: A Reply to Dumenil and Levy, Review of Radical Political Economics , 34:1 (Winter 2002).
8. ·         Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653, Princeton: Princeton University Press and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
9. ·         The European Dynamic’ or Feudalism to Capitalism? in The Anatomy of Power, ed. John Hall and Ralph Schroeder, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
10. ·         The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies  from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945–2005, VERSO 2006.