Glenn Loury

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Glenn C. Loury (born September 3, 1948) is a professor of economics at Brown University. He is considered a brilliant but controversial figure. He is from the south side of Chicago, Illinois.^[1] 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.

1 Career
2 Publications
3 Personal life
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Career

At age 33, he was the youngest black professor of economics ever tenured at Harvard University.

In 1984, Loury created controversy with "A New American Dilemma," an article in the The New Republic in which he addressed "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." This article brought attention and prominence, especially in conservative circles.

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, that same year, Loury was discovered to be carrying on an affair with Pamela Foster. Loury was later arrested for possession of cocaine.^[2] An article in The New Yorker during 1995 said that Loury "was emerging as exactly the kind of person he had warned black America to avoid."

Since 1987, Loury has reemerged as a born-again Christian and reinvented himself as a "black progressive." Loury left Harvard in 1991 to go across town 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 of economics, a research associate of the Population Studies and Training Center, and given a courtesy appointment in Africana studies.

Loury areas of study include applied microeconomic theory: welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution.^[1]

[edit] Publications

Loury is the author of over 200 articles, essays, and reviews.^[1]. Books he has published include:

One by One From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (1995, ISBN 0029194415)
- winner of the American Book Award and the Christianity Today Book Award
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (2002, ISBN 0674006259); considered more progressive than his earlier work; argues that a "racial stigma" prevents blacks from advancing in society
Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK (2005, ISBN 0521823099) with Tariq Modood and Steven Teles