His major research interests lie in the fields of Economics, Social Theory and Policy, and Women's Issues.

[1][2][3] His works have received positive endorsements from iconic intellectuals such as Ravi Batra, Roy Bhaskar,[4] Noam Chomsky,[5] Geoff Harcourt, Robert Heilbroner,[6] John M. Hobson,[7] Jonathan Joseph,[8] Tony Lawson,[9][10] Ali Mazrui,[11] John McMurtry, Roger Owen,[8] Warren Samuels, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Sweezy,[12] and Immanuel Wallerstein.

[13] A poem of his, set to backdrop music, named Millennium,[16] offers his rationale for launching the World Peace Congress.

[14][18] Rajani Kanth's major philosophical theories include: a) that Ricardian economics was merely policy advocacy in theoretical guise,[1][19][20][21][22][23] b) that Economics is the crown jewel of the hegemonic ideology of Modernism,[1] c) that European Modernism, whose derivates are capitalism and socialism, is the real grey eminence that has crafted the alienated misery of our epoch,[1][24][25][26] d) that we need to "break with the enlightenment" to escape the modernist cage,[27][28] e) that gender struggles far predate class and other struggles, with women's oppression being the original paradigm of power and domination, and define the "degree of civilization" of a societal form,[2][3] f) that men and women are distinct sub-species embodying a "paradigm of masculinity" and a "paradigm of femininity", respectively, correlated to violence and nurturance, that are basically instinctual in nature despite their cultural variation,[2] g) that we are, as hominids, basically tribal beings with clan and family being the surrogates for herd and pack in the animal world, of which we are a part,[2] h) that all our utopias founder on the rock of masculine drives for domination,[2][28] i) that only tribal society based on affective ties has managed to contain the predations of masculine drives within the healing matrix of kinship: and remains our best template of a modest amelioration.

[2][3][29] "Rajani K. Kanth and Eurocentrism: A Critique" by Nick Hostettler [30] "A Voyage into America – Discovering the New Wretched of the Earth" by John M. Hobson [7] "A review of Breaking With The Enlightenment: The Twilight of History and the Rediscovery of Utopia" by Alex Prichard [31] He was honored with a Festschrift at the American Economic Association Meetings in Chicago, January 4, 2007.