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Not to be confused with the art historian and museum director, Glenn D. Lowry.
Glenn Loury
Loury in 2012
Born (1948-09-03) September 3, 1948 (age 76)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Academic career
FieldSocial economics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Boston University
Brown University
Harvard University
Alma materNorthwestern University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD)
Doctoral
advisor		Robert Solow[1]
InfluencesGary Becker
Thomas Sowell
ContributionsCoate-Loury model of affirmative action
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 Brown University, where he has taught since 2005.[2] At the age of 33, Loury became the first African American professor of economics at Harvard University to gain tenure.

Loury achieved prominence during the Reagan Era as a leading black conservative intellectual.[3][4] In the mid 1990s, following a period of seclusion, he adopted more progressive views.[5] Today, Loury has somewhat re-aligned with views of the American right, with The New York Times describing his political orientation in 2020 as "conservative-leaning."[6][7][8]

Early life and education

Loury was born in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, growing up in a redlined neighborhood. Before going to college he fathered two children, and supported them with a job in a printing plant. When he wasn't working he took classes at Southeast Junior College where he won a scholarship to study at Northwestern University.[9][10] In 1972, he received his Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, writing his dissertation, "Essays in the Theory of the Distribution of Income", under the supervision of Robert M. Solow.[11] At MIT he met his future wife, Linda Datcher Loury.[12]

Career

Loury became an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University after receiving his Ph.D. 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 tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University.[3] He moved to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government after two years.[13] While at Kennedy school he would befriend William Bennett and Bill Kristol[3] (Later he said in an interview that his economics appointment was a mistake because he "wasn’t yet fully established as a scientist".[14])

In 1984, Loury drew the attention of critics[citation needed] 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 was under consideration to be an Undersecretary of Education in the Reagan administration. He withdrew from consideration on June 1, three days before being charged with assault in a domestic dispute with a 23-year-old woman; she later dropped the charges.[15] Loury was later arrested for possession of cocaine.[16]

After a subsequent period of seclusion and self-reflection, Loury reemerged as a born-again Christian and described himself as a "black progressive."[17] 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. 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 Bloggingheads.tv 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 Waking Up, 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]

Loury opposes reparations for slavery[24] and cancel culture.[25] Loury supports increased border security.[26] On January 9, 2007, Loury spoke out against increasing the number of troops in Iraq.[27]

In June 2020, Loury published a rebuttal to a letter 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."[28]

Loury was opposed to Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential run.[29] During debates with John McWhorter, Loury defended Donald Trump. Loury would later blame Trump for the 2021 United States Capitol attack. He opposed the second impeachment of Donald Trump.[30]

Awards and honors

Loury was elected as a member of the Econometric Society in 1994, Vice President of the American Economics Society in 1997, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2011.[31][32][33] He was elected president of the Eastern Economics Association in 2013. Loury is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a main academic contributor to the 1776 Unites project. He received the Bradley Prize in 2022.[34]

Personal life

Loury's wife Linda Datcher Loury died in 2011.[12] He has since remarried.[35]

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

  1. ^ Loury, Glenn Cartman (1976). Essays in the Theory of the Distribution of Income (Ph.D.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/27456.
  2. ^ "Glenn Loury | Watson Institute".
  3. ^ a b c "Glenn Loury's About Face". The New York Times. 20 January 2002. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  4. ^ "Bill Moyers Journal . Patterson and Loury on Race in America | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  5. ^ Robert Boynton (1 May 1995). "Loury's Exodus: A profile of Glenn Loury". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  6. ^ Powell, Michael (2020-10-17). "'White Supremacy' Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  7. ^ Brooks, David (2021-11-18). "The Terrifying Future of the American Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  8. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-07-10). "Opinion | A Challenger of the Woke 'Company Policy'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  9. ^ Angelica Spertini (2006-05-15). "Glenn C. Loury Biography" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-31. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "Biography of Glenn C. Loury" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Loury, Glenn Cartman (1976). Essays in the theory of the distribution of income (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/27456.
  12. ^ a b Marquard, Bryan (October 2, 2011). "Linda Datcher Loury, 59, pioneer in social economics" – via The Boston Globe.
  13. ^ Shatz, Adam (2002-01-20). "About Face". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  14. ^ "'Affirmative Action is Not About Equality. It's About Covering Ass.'". 2019-06-17.
  15. ^ "Harvard Teacher is Free of Charge". The New York Times. 20 August 1987. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
  16. ^ "Harvard Teacher Faces Drug Charges in Boston". The New York Times. 3 December 1987. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  17. ^ Boynton, Robert S. (1995-04-24). "LOURY'S EXODUS". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  18. ^ "Glenn Loury, Brown University Population Studies and Training Center".
  19. ^ Loury, Glenn (March 4, 2021). "A Formula for Tyranny and More Racism". City Journal. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
  20. ^ "The Glenn Show". Bloggingheads.tv. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  21. ^ Harris, Sam (2020). Making Sense. Bantam Press. p. 215. ISBN 9781787630420.
  22. ^ Powell, Michael (2020-10-17). "'White Supremacy' Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  23. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-07-10). "Opinion | A Challenger of the Woke 'Company Policy'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  24. ^ "The Interview: Brown University Professor Glenn Loury". Boston Magazine. 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  25. ^ Brooks, David (2021-11-18). "The Terrifying Future of the American Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  26. ^ Loury, Glenn (2022-05-24). "An Argument for Border Control". Glenn Loury. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  27. ^ "Roundtable: Funding the Iraq War, Somalia". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  28. ^ "I Must Object".
  29. ^ Staff, The New Republic (2009-02-23). "Glenn Loury And Me On Bloggingheads". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  30. ^ Loury, Glenn (2021-01-17). "I was wrong about Trump". Glenn Loury. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
  31. ^ "Fellows of the Econometric Society 1950 to 2019". The Econometric Society. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  32. ^ "Glenn C. Loury". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  33. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  34. ^ "Bradley Foundation: Glenn Loury, distinguished economist and scholar, selected as a 2022 Bradley Prize winner". Bradley Foundation. Bradley Foundation. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  35. ^ @GlennLoury, Twitter, Tweet dated Nov 22, 2021 at 2:15 PM.
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