Robert Paul Brenner

 Professor Robert Paul Benner is a Professor of History and Director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Benner is an economic historian and theorist of development, interpreter of contemporary Marxist theory, who studies the origins of capitalism, English Revolution, and agricultural transformations in early modern Europe. He wrote Merchants and Revolution (1993) and The Economics of Global Turbulence (2006). The Brenner Thesis triggered an international debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He currently focuses on evolution and crises of the postwar global economy.