Glenn Loury

Glenn Cartman Loury (born September 3, 1948 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American economist and author. He is a professor at Brown University .

Life

Loury grew up on the South Side of Chicago as a child of work class parents. As an adolescent, he had two illegitimate children and left his first college to work in a printing company. There he worked the night shift and attended Southeast Junior College during the day , where he received a scholarship to Northwestern University .

Loury and his first wife Charlene have two daughters. In his second marriage, he was married to Linda Datcher Loury, who also taught economics at Tufts University, until her death in 2011 . From this marriage Loury has two sons.

Education and career

At Northwestern Loury graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics. In 1976 he received his doctorate in economics from MIT to become a doctor of philosophy .

From 1976 to 1979, Loury was Assistant Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. From 1970 to 1980 he taught as an Associate Professor and from 1980 to 1982 as Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan . At Harvard University he was Professor of African American Studies from 1982 to 1984 and Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1984 to 1991 . Loury was the first black professor in Harvard's economics department. In 1991 Loury moved to Boston University , where he was Professor of Economics until 2005. There he founded the Institute on Race and Social Division in 1997 , which he headed as director until 2003. In 2005 Loury took over the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economic at Brown University .

Politically, Loury was close to the Republicans until the mid-1990s . Loury particularly criticized the affirmative action policy . In 1984 he declared at a meeting of the National Urban Coalition , which was attended by representatives of the Civil Rights Movement , that this movement was over. Blacks should take responsibility for their own social problems instead of pointing their fingers at white racism. This aroused criticism among US black intellectuals. Loury was Ronald Reagan's first choice in 1987 for the position of Under Secretary of Education under US Secretary of Education William Bennett . He turned down the post at short notice for personal reasons. It was later revealed that he was being tried for assault following a relationship dispute that was later dropped.

From the mid-1990s he turned more to the positions of modern American liberalism. In 2016 he describes himself as one of the positions of the middle of the Democrats or slightly to the right of it.

Loury has published over a hundred scientific articles, his research spanning different areas, including: a. the micro-economics , welfare economics , income distribution , industrial economics and game theory . Loury has written articles for various newspapers and runs the video blog The Glenn Show .

Awards and memberships

• 1985–1986: Guggenheim grant
• since 1994: Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society
• 1996: American Book Award for One by One From the Inside Out
• since 1999: Elected Member of the Council of Foreign Relations
• since 2000: Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2000-2001: Carnegie Endowment Scholarship
• 2005: John von Neumann Award
• 2008: Honorary Doctorate from Tuskegee University
• since 2009: Appointed Member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academy of Sciences
• since 2011: Elected Member of the American Philosophical Society
• since 2017: Elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association

Works

• One by One From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America . New York, 1995.
• The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Cambridge, 2002.
• Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK with Tariq Modood and Steven Teles. Cambridge, 2005.
• Race, Incarceration, and American Values. A Boston review book with Pamela Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loic Wacquant . Cambridge, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Glenn Loury  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website at Brown University
• Appearances at C-Span
• The Glenn Show on bloggingheads.tv

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Loury, Glenn 1948–. In: Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} GLENN C. LOURY. In: Brown University. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Linda Datcher Loury, 59, pioneer in social economics. In: Boston.com. October 2, 2011, accessed January 22, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Biography of GLENN C. LOURY. (PDF (9 Kb)) In: Brown University. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
5. ^ Adam Shatz: About Face. In: New York Times. January 29, 2002, accessed January 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Harvard Teacher is free of charge. In: New York Times. August 20, 1987, accessed January 22, 2019 . 
7. ^ Waking Up With Sam Harris # 42 - Racism and Violence in America (with Glenn Loury). In: Waking Up With Sam Harris. August 16, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2019 .