Glenn Loury

Glenn Loury
Born
Glenn Cartman Loury

(1948-09-03) September 3, 1948 (age 76)
EducationNorthwestern University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouses
Charlene
(divorced)
(m. 1983; death 2011)
Lajuan Loury
(m. 2017)
Children5
Academic career
FieldSocial economics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Harvard University
Boston University
Brown University
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Solow[1]
Doctoral
students
Rohini Somanathan
InfluencesGary Becker
Thomas Sowell
ContributionsCoate–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 at Brown University, where he has taught since 2005 also as a professor of economics.[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] 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]

  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". May 9, 2023. Archived from the original on June 21, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
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  4. ^ "Bill Moyers Journal . Patterson and Loury on Race in America | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on September 25, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  5. ^ Robert Boynton (May 1, 1995). "Loury's Exodus: A profile of Glenn Loury". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on November 30, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2008.
  6. ^ Powell, Michael (October 17, 2020). "'White Supremacy' Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  7. ^ Brooks, David (November 18, 2021). "The Terrifying Future of the American Right". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on January 14, 2022. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  8. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (July 10, 2020). "Opinion | A Challenger of the Woke 'Company Policy'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2022.