Glenn Loury
Glenn Loury | |
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Born | Glenn Cartman Loury September 3, 1948 |
Education | Northwestern University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Spouse | Linda Datcher Loury (m. 1983, died 2011)
Lajuan Loury (m. 2017) |
Children | 4 |
Academic career | |
Institutions | Social economics |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow[1] |
Influences | Gary Becker Thomas Sowell |
Contributions | Coate–Loury model |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
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
Loury achieved prominence during the
Early life and education
Loury was born on September 3, 1948,
Career
Loury became an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University after receiving his doctorate. In 1979, he moved to teach at the University of Michigan, and was promoted to full professor of economics in 1980. In 1982, at age 33, Loury became the first black
In 1987, Loury was under consideration to be an Undersecretary of Education in the Reagan administration. He withdrew from consideration on June 1, three days before citing personal reasons.[16]
After a subsequent period of seclusion and self-reflection, Loury reemerged as a
Loury's areas of study include applied microeconomic theory: welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution. In addition to economics, he has also written extensively on the themes of racial inequality and social policy.[18] Loury testified on racial issues before the Senate Banking Committee on March 4, 2021.[19] and presented at the Bruce D. Benson Center Lecture Series at the University of Colorado Boulder on February 8, 2021.[citation needed]
Loury hosts The Glenn Show on his Substack with John McWhorter, often regarding questions of race and education.[20][non-primary source needed]
Political positions
On a 2017 episode of the Sam Harris podcast Making Sense, Loury stated that while he used to be "a Reagan conservative", he now thought of himself as a "centrist Democrat, or maybe a mildly right-of-center Democrat."[21] The New York Times described Loury as "conservative-leaning" and The Wall Street Journal described Loury as a “Reagan Republican”.[22][23]
On January 9, 2007, Loury spoke out against increasing the number of troops in Iraq.[24]
Presidential elections and candidates
Loury was opposed to Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential run.[25] He continued to criticize Obama as president calling his tenure “depressing in the extreme" and also criticized Obama's closeness to Al Sharpton.[26][27]
In 2016, he supported
Race
Loury opposes reparations for slavery and affirmative action.[16][32] He has said that "affirmative action is not the solution, but neither is it the problem".[33] Conversely, he has criticized affirmative action saying, "Affirmative action is dishonest. It’s not about equality, it’s about covering ass."[34][35]
In 1984, Loury drew the attention of critics with "A New American Dilemma," published in The New Republic, a piece in which he addressed what he termed "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."[36]
In June 2020, Loury published a rebuttal to a letter that Brown University president Christina Paxson sent to students and alumni in response to the murder of George Floyd by a policeman. Loury questioned the purpose of Paxson's letter, saying it either "affirmed platitudes to which we can all subscribe, or, more menacingly, it asserted controversial and arguable positions as though they were axiomatic certainties."[37]
Immigration
On immigration, Loury said in an interview segment in The First Measured Century, "There are benefits of immigration, and there are also costs. The benefits in terms of cheaper, eager labor to help we Americans produce the products that we want to consume. The costs are in terms of making it more difficult to equalize the economic circumstances of some Americans who are at the bottom of the heap, because they now have more competition for their labor, as a result of immigration."[38]
Awards and honors
Loury was elected as a member of the
Personal life
Loury fathered two children as a teenager.[44]
Loury and his wife, Linda Datcher Loury, had two sons together.[44] Linda died in 2011.[13] He has since remarried.[45]
On 11 April 2024, Loury announced his diagnoses of arthritis and stenosis of the lower spine. He underwent surgery 10 April 2024, and plans further surgical treatments.[46]
Publications
- Loury, Glenn (1995). One by One From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (First ed.). New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-919441-6.
- "Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The Challenge to Economics" (PDF). Boston University. 1999.
- Loury, Glenn (2002). The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00625-6.
- Loury, Glenn; Modood, Tariq; Teles, Steven (2005). Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82309-8.
- Loury, Glenn; Karlan, Pamela; Wacquant, Loic; Shelby, Tommie (2008). Race, Incarceration, and American Values. A Boston review book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-12311-2.
References
- hdl:1721.1/27456.
- ^ "Glenn Loury | Watson Institute". May 9, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Glenn Loury's About Face". The New York Times. January 20, 2002. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
- ^ "Bill Moyers Journal . Patterson and Loury on Race in America | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
- ^ Robert Boynton (May 1, 1995). "Loury's Exodus: A profile of Glenn Loury". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 31, 2008.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
- ^ Brooks, David (November 18, 2021). "The Terrifying Future of the American Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
- ^ "Loury, Glenn 1948–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
- ^ Angelica Spertini (May 15, 2006). "Glenn C. Loury Biography" (PDF). econ.brown.edu. Retrieved October 31, 2008.
- ^ "Biography of Glenn C. Loury" (PDF).
- hdl:1721.1/27456.
- ^ a b Marquard, Bryan (October 2, 2011). "Linda Datcher Loury, 59, pioneer in social economics". Boston.com – via The Boston Globe.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ^ "'Affirmative Action is Not About Equality. It's About Covering Ass.'". June 17, 2019.
- ^ a b "Loury's Exodus: A profile of Glenn Loury – Robert S Boynton". Retrieved December 27, 2022.
- ^ Boynton, Robert S. (April 24, 1995). "LOURY'S EXODUS". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Glenn Loury, Brown University Population Studies and Training Center".
- ^ Loury, Glenn (March 4, 2021). "A Formula for Tyranny and More Racism". City Journal. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "The Glenn Show". glennloury.substack.com. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
- ISBN 9781787630420.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ^ "Roundtable: Funding the Iraq War, Somalia". NPR.org. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
- ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
- ^ "Obama's Missed Opportunity". Glenn Loury. June 20, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ Kennedy, Randall (May 8, 2020). "Did Obama Fail Black America?". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ "Bloggingheads.tv". Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ "I was wrong about Trump". Glenn Loury. January 17, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
- ^ Elton, Catherine (January 11, 2022). "The Interview: Brown University Professor Glenn Loury". Boston Magazine. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ "I was wrong about Trump". Glenn Loury. January 17, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ "The Interview: Brown University Professor Glenn Loury". Boston Magazine. January 11, 2022. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- ^ "Edley - Response". www.theatlantic.com. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ Perry, Mark (June 21, 2019). "Glenn Loury: 'Affirmative action is dishonest. It's not about equality, it's about covering ass'". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ Goldstein_, Evan (June 17, 2019). "'Affirmative Action Is Not About Equality. It's About Covering Ass.'". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
- ^ "LOURY'S EXODUS". The New Yorker. April 24, 1995. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ "I Must Object". July 16, 2020.
- ^ "First Measured Century: Interview: Glenn Loury". www.pbs.org. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
- ^ "Fellows of the Econometric Society 1950 to 2019". The Econometric Society. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ "Glenn C. Loury". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ "Bradley Foundation: Glenn Loury, distinguished economist and scholar, selected as a 2022 Bradley Prize winner". Bradley Foundation. March 22, 2022. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
- ^ "Seven Eminent Scholars Elected 2022 AAPSS Fellows". The American Academy of Political & Social Science. March 9, 2022. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
- ^ @GlennLoury, Twitter, Tweet dated Nov 22, 2021 at 2:15 PM.
- ^ A Health Update from Glenn | The Glenn Show. Retrieved April 12, 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
External links
- Glenn Loury's webpage at Brown University
- Loury's Fellow page at the American Academy of Political & Social Science
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Loury's blog on Substack
- Video interviews/discussions with Loury at bloggingheads.tv