Anjan Chakrabarti holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Riverside, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta. His interests include Marxian theory, political philosophy, development economics and Indian economics. He is the author or co-author of seven books and fifty journal articles. His books include Transition and Development in India (co-authored with Stephen Cullenberg), Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to World of the Third (co-authored with Anup Dhar) and World of the Third and Global Capitalism (co-authored with Anup Dhar and Stephen Cullenberg). He has published in journals including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Collegium Anthropologicum, Critical Sociology, Rethinking Marxism, Psychotherapy and Politics International, and Economic and Political Weekly. In 2008, he received the V. K. R. V. Rao Prize in Social Science Research in Economics, awarded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Government of India and the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.