Over the years, economics has gradually moved away from the real world towards formalized axioms and mathematical models that have little correlation with reality. Economic commentators try to fill this gap to the best of their ability, but, lacking sufficient scientific knowledge, journalists often follow fashion and become too absorbed in current affairs. As a result, the serious mysteries of the economic development of advanced countries in the period after the end of World War II have not yet received any detailed coverage. Economist and historian Robert Brenner challenges this state of affairs. In The Economics of Global Turbulence, he describes the troubled post-war history of the global system and reveals the mechanisms of overproduction and excessive competition that underlie its long-term crisis since the early 1970s.