E. K. Hunt

Emery Kay Hunt (born November 13, 1937), better known as E. K. Hunt or Kay Hunt,is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Utah.

He was born in Blanding, Utah, the son of Emery Rulond Hunt (1914–1994) and Minerva Kartchner (b. 1917). He has one brother and four sisters. Hunt has two children, Jeff Hunt and Andrew Hunt. Andrew is a Professor of History at the University of Waterloo.

Hunt received his bachelor's degree in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1968 from the University of Utah. He has taught at five universities including the University of California, Riverside from 1969 to 1978, after which he joined the faculty at the University of Utah. From 1983 to 1989, he was chair of the University of Utah Department of Economics.

Genealogical sources give Hunt's first name as "Emery." Amazon.com 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).