00861pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002300040245003500063260000900098300001600107362001000123520053800133650002200671773003400693180718b2007   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBasu, Pranab Kanti  aPolitical economy of land grab  c2007  ap.1281-287.  a7 Apr  aA new phase of capitalist expansion led by "global capital" is driving governments, including those of the left, to dispossess and displace peasants from agricultural land, even using force to break up peasant resistance. The article offers an understanding of this new phase, with a focus on the role and compulsions of governments. The analysis is in the tradition of radical political economy, and is based on a revaluation and expansion of Marx's conceptualisation of rent and the primitive accumulation of capital. - Reproduced.  aAgricultural land  aEconomic and Political Weekly