Brenner and Perelman -- Separated at Birth?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

[was: RE: [PEN-L:21597] Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev]

BTW, I just ordered a book by Brenner at Amazon.com and discovered that they
offer a special deal if you order a second book, specifically THE INVENTION
OF CAPITALISM, by Michael Perelman. (I already had it and so couldn't profit
from the deal!)

This association might lead to guilt-by-association: after all, there are
faith-based Marxists who consider Brenner to be a heretic.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PEN-L:21597] Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: reform and rev
>
>
> 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 jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Chico, CA 95929
> 530-898-5321
> fax 530-898-5901
>