About the event
Join David Harvey and Robert Brenner as they discuss the roots of the present economic crisis and the way forward.
Robert Brenner is Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the New School University and author of many books and papers on the early development of capitalism and the current economic crisis. The Brenner Debate on the origins of capitalism to this day remains seminal on this topic. More recently his books – The Boom and the Bubble: the US in the World Economy (London, Verso, 2002) and Economics of Global Turbulence (London, Verso, 2006)—has focused on the fundamental contradictions of contemporary capitalism. His most recent work is “The Political Economy of the Rank and File Rebellion” in Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below during the Long 1970s, eds. A. Brenner et. al. (London, Verso, 2010).
David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and
Geography at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of various books,
articles, and lectures. He is the author of Seventeen Contradictions and the End
of Capitalism (Profile Books, 2014), one of The Guardian’s
Best Books of 2011, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford
University Press, 2010). Other books include A Companion to Marx’s Capital,
Limits to Capital, and Social Justice and the City. Professor Harvey has been
teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 40 years. His lectures on Marx’s Volumes
I and II are available for download (free) on his website. He was director of
the Center for Place, Culture and Politics from 2008-2014.
Co-sponsored with The Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center, CUNY
