Glenn C Loury is the Merton Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He holds a BA in Mathematics (Northwestern University) and a PhD in Economics (MIT). He has lectured on issues of race, ethnicity and inequality throughout the world. Prof. Loury, a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and a past Vice President of the American Economics Association, has been elected a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society.
Prof Loury’s books include Race, Incarceration and American Values (2008); Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK (2005); The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (2002); and One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (winner of the 1996 American Book Award).