Glenn Loury
glenn_loury@brown.edu
+1 401 863 9828
111 Thayer Street, Room 304
Professor of Economics
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences
An academic economist, Professor Loury has published mainly in the areas of applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society and a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2005 he received the John von Neumann Award, given annually by the Rajk László College of the Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration to "an outstanding economist whose research has exerted a major influence on students of the College over an extended period of time." He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Scholarship to support his work. He has given the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford (2007), the James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics at Princeton (2003), and the DuBois Lectures in African American Studies at Harvard (2000).
A prominent social critic and public intellectual writing mainly on the themes of racial inequality and social policy, he has published more than 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the US and abroad. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a contributing editor at The Boston Review, and was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic. His book One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (The Free Press, 1995) won the American Book Award and the Christianity Today Book Award.
"Rebranding ex-convicts" with Young-Chul Kim, Journal of Public Economy Theory, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 356-366, 2017. Published.
"Collective Reputation and the Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination: Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination" with Young-Chul Kim, International Economic Review, Vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 3-18, 2014. Published.
Race, Incarceration and American Values (MIT Press, 2008)
Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK (ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005)
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2002)
One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (The Free Press, 1995)
August 12, 2019 PBS NewsHour
Professor Glenn Loury provided commentary on slavery reparations, saying "Seeing blackness and African descent as some kind of subhuman category, that would legitimate in the land of the free and the home of the brave carrying on a commerce in human chattel... That was a deep and profound injury. It can't be made into a piece of cash."
August 1, 2019 The New York Times
Professor Glenn Loury argues in The New York Times that by defending Al Sharpton, Democrats have "handed Trump an easy win and yoked themselves to a genuine bigot."
June 18, 2019 Chronicle of Higher Education
This is a Q&A on race and freedom of speech on college campuses with Glenn Loury, a professor of social sciences.
May 20, 2019
In a new report released by the Manhattan Institute, Professor Glenn Loury delves into the persistence of racial inequality in the United States.
February 13, 2019 City Journal
In an event titled, "Barriers To Black Progress: Structural, Cultural, or Both?" Professor Glenn Loury discussed the persistence of racial inequality with Jason Riley.
January 22, 2019 Quillette
"But another reason why Loury extols the virtue of a benign kind of nationalism can be discerned in a question he frequently asks himself: What are his duties as an African American intellectual?"
August 2, 2018 College Fix
A team of university economists, among them Professor Glenn Loury, said Asian-American applicants to Harvard whose grades and test scores were in the top one percent fared worse in "personal" ratings from the school than white applicants in the top 50 percent.