Glenn Loury
glenn_loury@brown.edu
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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)
May 9, 2023 PBS
Glenn Loury comments for PBS, “I don’t know if he had a well-formed political philosophy before he got to Holy Cross. It may be he was simply going along.”
April 22, 2023 Real Time with Bill Maher
As a guest on 'Real Time with Bill Maher,' Professor of Economics Glenn Loury participated in a panel discussion.
April 14, 2023 Independent Truths
In an interview with Independent Truths, Glenn Loury discusses the impact of affirmative action, the black family, and his advocacy for black patriotism in the United States.
March 9, 2023
The Global Liberty Institute presented its 2023 Liberty Award to Glenn C. Loury during a ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida on February 17, 2023.
January 9, 2023 Brown Alumni Magazine
In an interview with Brown Alumni Magazine, Glenn Loury discusses how he has become an important conservative thinker and a public intellectual not afraid to change his own mind.
August 17, 2022 The Financial Times
“Being the subject of such deference as the minority [means] all the moral agency in that situation goes to the powerful observer, who either can or cannot elect to be an ally,” Glenn Loury comments for the Financial Times.
May 24, 2022 Forbes
Professor of Economics Glenn Loury comments in Forbes, on the dynamics of "cognitive inequality," and whether there can be jobs in the economy for those with certain limited cognitive skills.