This paper discusses one important component of the analysis of the decline of the profit rate in the recent decades in Robert Brenner’s Economics of Global Turbulence. Our single focus in this paper is Brenner’s implicit theory of distribution. It must be emphasized from the outset that the present discussion does not question the central role given by Brenner to the profit rate in his investi...

Y. H. BRENNER (1881-1921) has long been associated with the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His early letters express fascination with Russian novelists, poets, and critics (Brenner, 1967, pp. 218-226), and the figures of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky appear many times in both his fiction and non-fiction writing. Brenner's admiration for the depth of Dostoyevsky's psychological portr...

Sydney Brenner decided on his lifelong scientific goals on one cold day in April 1953.Hewas a 26-year-old graduate student in Oxford at the time. “What I remember inOxford is being hungry all the time, and cold,” he told me. Crick and Watson had just built the double helix model, and Brenner and a few others took a road trip to Cambridge to see it before it was announced to the rest of the worl...