Robert Brenner

"Prosperity and Crisis in the World Economy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

Co-sponsored by the OSU Department of History .

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Robert Brenner is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at University of California at Los Angeles.

He is author of Economics Of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945-2005 (Verso Press, 2006) and The Boom and The Bubble: The U.S. in the World Economy (Verso Press, 2002, translated into seven languages), Merchants and Revolution (1993), as well as keynote author of The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Preindustrial Europe (1985).

Brenner received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1970.

Robert Brenner
Director, Center
for Social Theory and Comparative History, UCLA