Glenn Loury on race, surviving public humiliation, and being willing to change his mind.
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.
Glenn Loury
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Glenn Loury
Professor of Economics
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences
Biography
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.
Publications
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)
News|Recent News
Barriers to Black Progress (interview with Glenn Loury)
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.
Anatomist of Racial Inequality: An Interview with Glenn Loury
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?"
Economists approve statistical model that finds Harvard discriminates against Asians (Glenn Loury mentioned)
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.
The Glenn Show (with Glenn Loury)
February 1, 2018 Blogging Heads
Professor Glenn Loury talks with his son, Glenn Loury II, in Loury's latest podcast episode about capitalism and social democratic vision.
Explore Watson: BIARI 2017 Identifies Challenging, Interrelated Dilemmas
June 2, 2017
Forced Population Displacements, Climate Change, Global Economic Inequality, and Humanitarian Relief Initiatives
An Ivy League professor on what the campus conversation on race gets wrong (interview with Glenn Loury)
September 20, 2016 Vox
Glenn Loury, professor of social sciences, discusses political correctness, the legacy of state-sanctioned racism and his disagreements with the Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Events
May 26, 2018
Commencement Forum ─ America’s Mass Incarceration Problem: How did we get here, and where do we go from here?
9 a.m. – 10 a.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 9, 2018
Race, Poverty, and Social Equity: Forging a New Way
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room