Similar to Brenner in many ways, yes. We both worked on the transition to capitalism about the same time. Several people pointed out the similarity between his New Left Review piece and my own work. When I saw it, my first thought was plagiarism. I asked about it and he explained the pathway that he followed, thoroughly convincingly that we were just working along similar lines.
"Devine, James" wrote: > Michael Perelman writes:>In my new book, The Pathology of the U.S. Economy > Revisited, I tried to make the case that this success rested, in part, on > prior conditions: a new capital stock coming out of the Great Depression and > World War II, the destruction of competing economies, and a very favorable > debt structure.< > > Michael, this is very similar to Brenner's analysis. > > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
