Nationality United States Role Economist Name Glenn Loury | Field Social economics Influenced Roland G. Fryer, Jr. | |
Contributions Coate-Loury Model of affirmative action Awards American Book Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books The Anatomy of Racial In, Race - incarceration - and Amer, One by one from the inside out, Race and Culture: An Address t | ||
Big think interview with glenn loury
Glenn Cartman Loury (born September 3, 1948) is an American economist, academic and author. He is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University.
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- Big think interview with glenn loury
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- Early years
- Career
- Public statements
- Personal life
- Publications
- References
Glenn loury on mass incarceration in the united states 1 7
Early years
Loury was born in, Chicago, Illinois. In 1972, he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
In 1982, at age 33, he became the first black tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University.
In 1984, Loury drew the attention of critics with "A New American Dilemma", published in The New Republic, where he addressed what he terms "fundamental failures in black society" such as "the lagging academic performance of black students, the disturbingly high rate of black-on-black crime, and the alarming increase in early unwed pregnancies among blacks."
In 1987, Loury's career continued its ascent when he was selected to be the next Undersecretary of Education, a position which would have made him the second-highest-ranking black person in the Reagan administration. However, Loury withdrew from consideration on June 1, three days before being charged with assault after a "lover's quarrel" with a 23-year-old woman. Loury was later arrested for possession of cocaine.
After a subsequent period of seclusion and self-reflection, Loury reemerged as a born-again Christian and described himself as a "black progressive". Loury left Harvard in 1991 to go to Boston University, where he headed the Institute on Race and Social Division. In 2005, Loury left Boston University for Brown University, where he was named a professor in the Economics Department, and a research associate of the Population Studies and Training Center.
Loury's areas of study include applied microeconomic theory: welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution.
Loury is a frequent contributor to Bloggingheads.tv, where he hosts The Glenn Show.
Public statements
When the Chicago Police Department announced in early December 2016 that the city's annual homicide rate had exceeded 700 for the first time in two decades, Loury wrote, "Black Lives Matter -- really! In my hometown, Chicago, they are being extirpated at an alarming rate. The discourse about race, violence, and the value of human life has been held hostage to partisanship -- Black Lives Matter vs. Blue Lives Matter. We can do better than that. The election is over. And, the body count mounts. I'm interested now in SOLUTIONS and, frankly, I don't give a damn where they come from. Obama ignored this catastrophe unfolding in his adopted home town for nearly a decade. At the moment, I'm inclined to #GiveTrumpAChance to 'fix it.' Anybody with a better idea? Speak now.",
Personal life
Loury and his late wife, Tufts economist Linda Datcher Loury, have two sons, Glenn II and Nehemiah. Loury and his first wife, Charlene Loury, have two daughters, Lisa and Tamara. Loury also has a son out of wedlock, Alden Loury.