title: The Economics of Global Turbulence
author:  Robert Brenner 
description: A brilliant economic overview of the worlds current economic state.<br /><b><i>Nation</i></b><br /><br />Here, at last  something good out of the left.<br /><b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /><br />Robert Brenner [is] arguably capitals most lucid contemporary historian.<br /><b><i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i></b><br /><br />Ambitious, informative and compelling.<br /><b>Thomas Kollman, <i>Tribune</i></b>
zlib_text: THE ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL TURBULENCE 
  The Advanced Capitalist Economies from 
  long Boom to long Downturn, 1945-2005 
  ROBERT BRENNER 
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  London N11w York 
  
  This edition published by Verso 2006 
  'Economi s of Global Turbulence'© New Left Review 1998 
  Pr fa c and Afterword© Robert Brenner 2006 
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  To Alfred and Elizabeth Brenner 
  
  I f Figures and Tables 
  nowledgements 
  ACE Dynamics of Turbulence 
  CONTENTS 
  TROOUCTION The Puzzle of the Long Downturn 
  