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Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi,: by Sushmita Pati, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 320 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781316517277. by Thomas Cowan is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the study of rent. In conventional Marxist accounts, rent is merely the economic measure of the power of landed monopolies under capitalism. Land has no innate value per se; its value is purely extractive of surplus capital produced somewhere else (the workplace) by someone else (labour), and that value is secured within legal-institutional contexts organised to iron-clad certain kinds of private ownership. Rent is, as such, both a completely localised relation, contingent upon historically-specific social relations that give rise to and secure the power of monopolies, 1 and yet also entirely epiphenomenal to political and legal-institutional scaffolding that recognises those monopolies and bestow that power. Rent is both grounded and generalised, secured and speculative. The rentier is always, everywhere, a parasite deeply dependent upon the blood of capitalist value and political institutions that secure that steady stream of blood. 2 In this regard, rent has a complicated, well-documented relationship to capitalism, both as an obstacle to capital's free movement, a residual limpet of feudal pasts, and yet an enduring presence,
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- Author
- Thomas Cowan
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences