The Role of Value in the Development of Agrarian Capitalism

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In common law jurisdictions, use that would justify an ownership right was defined by cultivation. And cultivation was understood within the relatively narrow parameters of English agrarian capitalism. How did this ideology of improvement take root in English political economy beginning in the 17th century? What about that early settler colonial project alongside the rise of capitalism propelled forth this new and abstracted way of measuring of valuing people and land?

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