Glenn Loury
Glenn Loury | |
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| Born | Glenn Cartman Loury September 3, 1948 |
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| Children | 5 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Northwestern University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Solow |
| Influences | Gary Becker Thomas Sowell |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social economics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan Harvard University Boston University Brown University |
| Doctoral students | Rohini Somanathan |
| Notable ideas | Coate–Loury model |
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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. 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. In the mid-1990s, following a period of seclusion, he adopted more progressive views. 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."