Truth, Justice, and Racial Equality

Glenn Loury
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown and host of the Glenn Show podcast

Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is an economic theorist who has published widely and lectured throughout the world on his research. He is also among America’s leading critics writing on racial inequality. He has published more than 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the US and abroad. He is a contributing editor at The Boston Review and was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic. He has his own podcast called the Glenn Show in which he has had several recent episodes on the reparations debate.

Dr. Loury has been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association, as a Member of the American Philosophical Society and of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern) and a Ph.D. in Economics (M.I.T).

Books by GLENN LOURY

CITED WORKS (IN ORDER OF REFERENCE)

1. Bracey, Christopher Alan. Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T. Washington to Condolezza Rice. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
2. Loury, Glenn C. Essays in the theory of the distribution of income. PhD diss., MIT, 1976.
3. Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010.
4. Fortner, Michael Javen. Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
5. “Fatal Force,” Washington Post. Accessed June 12, 2020.
6. Forman, James Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017.
7. Solman, Paul. “Can Reparations help right the wrongs of slavery?” PBS News Hour, August 1. 2019.
8. Coates, Ta–Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014.
9. Arcidiacono, Peter, and Lovenheim, Michael. “Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Trade-Off,” Journal of Economic Literature 54, no. 1 (2016): 3–51.
10. Coates, Ta–Nehisi. Between The World And Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.