Robert Brenner

Robert Brenner

6 Interviews

Robert Brenner's Interviews

Suzi Weissman & Robert Brenner 15 Aug 2022 • EN

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Economic Weirdness w/ Robert Brenner

Suzi talks to economic historian Robert Brenner to get his understanding of this strange economic moment. What makes it strange? Inflation has dampened spending, the economy is shrinking, and many call it "shaky." Yet profits are strong and soaring, especially in the energy sector, in part because of Russia’s war on Uk

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Suzi talks to Robert Brenner about the political-economic dimension of the 2020 election, the country, and the pandemic – and what it means for the battles ahead. The corrupt and hated President Trump was defeated, yet millions more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. He was undone by the raging pandemic that he

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Suzi Weissman & Robert Brenner 02 Jul 2020 • EN

Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on Coronavirus

Suzi talks to Robert Brenner, who has just published “Escalating Plunder” in New Left Review 123, about the federal response to the shutdown of the economy in the wake of the coronavirus. The punchline is that the COVID-19 bailout, or Cares Act, not only escalates plunder, it is predation on steroids in a stalled econo

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Suzi Weissman & Robert Brenner 12 Feb 2019 • EN

Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on the State of the Economy

The state of the economy is, despite assertions to the contrary, not strong; it is being plundered by the alliance of top corporate managers, leading financiers and political leaders from both parties. Suzi talks to Robert Brenner on politics and the state of the economy — matters of great confusion if you only pay att

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Suzi Weissman & Robert Brenner 21 Feb 2018 • EN

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Robert Brenner on the Economy

On this “podcast-versary” of the premiere of Jacobin Radio – one year since her first podcast, Suzi Weissman invites Robert Brenner back for another extended conversation on the state of the economy, especially given the dramatic plunges of the stock market, the wage and inflation reports, Trump tax cuts, and the propo

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For the full extended interview, join our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-why-didnt-7564559 We talk to award winning journalist Suzi Weissman and historian Robert Brenner, the Beyonce & Jay Z of the left, about Hillary Clinton running against herself, why Bernie Sanders is the story of the century and why

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