Jim, I don't have with me at home Brenner's brilliant piece on the logic of institutions in Analytical Marxism, Roemer. Again I think he gives a better explanation as for why growth through technological change depends on determinate institutions in the absence of which you can get at best short-lived extensive growth or what A and R call extractive growth (as I said, I think the claim is exaggerated) .At any rate, I think Brenner provides the logic for A and R's claims better than they do themselves (to say it again: Brenner's argument is brilliant); they do acknowledge him, but I think that they had more to learn from him. That said, IIRC, Brenner is not simply talking about European feudalism or serfdom but rather in general about tributary relations backed directly by extra-economic coercion and secured outside the marketplace. Again IIRC.
LR
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