Rajani Kannepalli Kanth was educated at the Delhi School of Economics, Columbia University, and the New School for Social Research, with degrees in Economics and Social Anthropology. His teaching career, spanning two decades, began at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1971-1974, interrupted by a stint at the United Nations in New York, only to be continued at the State University of New York and then on to the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City where he is currently based. Author of Political Economy and Laissez-Faire (1986) and co-editor of Explorations in Political Economy (1991), he has held Visiting Fellowships at Oxford University, England, and the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His teaching and research interests include political economy and social theory.