A grarian political economy investigates the social relations of production and reproduction, property and power in agrarian formations, and how they change. Using Marx's theory of capitalism the book argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change

As an introduction to agrarian political economy, this book includes explana-tions and applications of its key concepts, a glossary of analytical terms, and a historical approach and framework for examining agrarian change in capital-ism. The author assumes no prior knowledge of political economy on the part of readers but aims, through this stimulating introduction, to encourage them to study it further