{"product_id":"the-economics-of-global-turbulence-isbn-9781859847305","title":"The Economics of Global Turbulence","description":"For years, the discipline of economics has been moving steadily away from the real world towards formalized axioms and mathematical models with only a precarious bearing on actuality. Commentators seek to fill the gap as best they can, but in the absence of real background scholarship, journalism is vulnerable to the myopias of fashion and immediacy. The deeper enigmas of post-war development remain in either case largely untouched.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together the strengths of both the economist and the historian, Robert Brenner rises to this challenge. In this work, a revised and newly introduced edition of his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e 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 unequal development, and raising disturbing and far-reaching questions about its future trajectory.“A brilliant economic overview of the world’s current economic state.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here, at last … something good out of the left.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Robert Brenner [is] arguably capital’s most lucid contemporary historian.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ambitious, informative and compelling.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Thomas Kollman, \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Brenner\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boom and the Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMerchants and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Economics of Global Turbulence\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRebel Rank and File\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300271050981,"sku":"NP9781859847305","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781859847305.jpg?v=1767739131","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-economics-of-global-turbulence-isbn-9781859847305","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}