Books

• 1993: Merchants and revolution : commercial change, political conflict, and London's overseas traders, 1550-1653 (Princeton, Princeton University Press) ISBN 0-691-05594-7
• 2002: The boom and the bubble : the US in the world economy (New York, Verso) ISBN 1-85984-636-X
• 2006: The economics of global turbulence : the advanced capitalist economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945-2005 (New York, Verso) ISBN 978-1-85984-730-5
• 2009: Property and progress : the historical origins and social foundations of self-sustaining growth (London, Verso) ISBN 978-1-84467-318-6

Articles

• Brenner, Robert. "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe". Past and Present 70 (1976), pp. 30—74, influential statement of the controversial "Brenner thesis" that smallholding peasants had strong property rights and had little incentive to give up traditional technology or go beyond local markets, and thus no incentive toward capitalism
• "The economy after the boom: a diagnosis", International Viewpoint, 342, July/August 2002.
• "Devastating Crisis Unfolds", Against the Current, 132, January/February 2008.
• "The Economy in a World of Trouble", International Viewpoint, 411, April 2009.
• "What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America The Origins of the Present Crisis" (October 2, 2009). Center for Social Theory and Comparative History. Paper 2009-1.