Amitava Krishna Dutt is Professor of Economics and Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also Fellow of the Kellogg Institute of International Studies, the Liu Institute of Asia and Asian Studies and the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, University of Calcutta, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph. D. in Economics in 1983. His fields of specialization in economics are macroeconomic theory, development economics and international economics. He works on models of growth and distribution, North-South uneven development, and war and peace economics. He is the author or editor of several books, including Growth, distribution and uneven development (Cambridge University Press, 1990), International Handbook of Development Economics (Edward Elgar, 2008, co-editor), Happiness, Economics and Politics (Edward Elgar, 2009, co-editor), and Economics and Ethics: An Introduction (coauthor, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan) and of over 125 papers in edited volumes and in journals such as American Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, History of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, and World Development. He is a co-editor of the international journal, Metroeconomica and was formerly chairperson of the Department of Economics at Notre Dame. He has been visiting professor at various universities, including, most recently: University of Paris I, Sorbonne-Pantheon; San Francisco University, Quito; FLACSO, Quito; and University of Innsbruck, Austria.