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A commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble

About the Author

Robert Brenner is Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of The Boom and the Bubble, Merchants and Revolution, and co-editor of Rebel Rank and File.

Reviews

A brilliant economic overview of the world's current economic state.
*The Nation*

Here, at last-something good out of the left.
*Wall Street Journal*

Robert Brenner [is] arguably capital's most lucid contemporary historian.
*Los Angeles Review of Books*