E. K. Hunt
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Emery Kay Hunt (born November 13, 1937 in Blanding, Utah
Blanding, Utah
Blanding is a city in San Juan County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,162 at the 2000 census, making it the most populated city in San Juan County. It was settled in the late 19th century by Mormon settlers, predominantly from the famed Hole-In-The-Rock expedition...

) is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

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Hunt received his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. He has taught at five universities. He taught at the University of California, Riverside
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...

 from 1969 to 1978, then returned to the University of Utah where he has taught until now.

Hunt's father was Emery Rulond Hunt (1914–1994) and his mother was Minerva Kartchner (b. 1917). Hunt has one brother and four sisters.

Hunt is the father of Jeff Hunt and of Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt (historian)
Andrew Emerson Hunt is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is also the Director of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History.-Life:...

 who is a History professor at the University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
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Hunt's first name

Genealogical sources give Hunt's first name as "Emery". However, Amazon.com
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gives Hunt's first name as "Emerson" for the March 1986 paperback edition of Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Radical Views (ISBN 978-0-06-350353-3).

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