From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 06:18:08 EST
Re Rakesh's [7999]: > I attended Robert Brenner's lecture at a Berkeley bookstore last > night. Fact filled and well organized and extremely thoroughly > argued, Brenner's lecture held the non academic audience in rapt > attention for close to two hours. I took a seminar with him at the New School in 1981 (?) and found him to be a good and well organized instructor who encouraged students to think for themselves. [btw, here's his CV: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/cstch/brennercv.html ] I was therefore surprised to read the student evaluations at: http://www.bruinwalk.com/professors/profile.asp?ID=783 Other professors take note!: soon we all might have anonymous student evaluations posted on the WWW!! The talk you attended sounded like it was on the same theme as his July-August 2002 article on "The economy after the boom: a diagnosis": http://www.3bh.org.uk/IV/main/IV342/IV342%2009.htm The above is itself a condensation of the argument he made in his 2002 _The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy_ (Verso). Which itself is related to prior articles that he wrote on 'global turbulence' and uneven development. A fairly lengthy summary of his article "The economics of global turbulence" is at http://eha.darktech.org/eHa/41 A short but highly critical reply to the above is by Loren Goldner (self-description: "I may be the last 'debt-deflation' Marxist crisis theorist"): http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/brenner.html A short review article by Eva Cheng entitled "An unfolding debate about the capitalist crisis" on the debate that Brenner inspired is at: http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2000/410/410p14.htm Here's another -- highly critical -- review by Rob Hoveman: http://www.isj1text.ble.org.uk/pubs/isj82/hoveman.htm A 1999 reply from by Mary Malloy and Charlie Post to Brenner's _NLR_ 1998 article on uneven development is at: http://solidarity.igc.org/atc/79MalloyPost.html (If my memory is correct, Mary also attended the same seminar at the New School by Bob that I referred to above). Enough for now. In solidarity, Jerry
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