The Anatomy of Racial Inequality Glenn C. Loury November TBA This event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.

Biography

Glenn C. Loury is University Professor, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University. He earned a B.A. in Mathematics at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Economics at M.I.T.

As an applied economic theorist, Professor Loury has contributed to the fields of welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford, Tel Aviv, and Stockholm universities, at the Delhi School of Economics, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is a winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and served as Vice President of the American Economic Association in 1997.

As a prominent social critic and public intellectual, Professor Loury's essays on race, inequality, and social policy have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Commentary, and the National Review, among other venues. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a member of the publication committee at The Public Interest. His book, One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America won the 1996 American Book Award and the 1996 Christianity Today Book Award.