Glenn C. Loury

John A. Paulson Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics, Brown University

Glenn C. Loury

Dr. Glenn Loury is professor of Social Sciences at Brown University and has published mainly in the areas of applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society and a member of the American Philosophical Society. A prominent social critic and public intellectual, Dr. Loury has published more than 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the US and abroad.

Glenn C. Loury is a Paulson Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University.

 

Loury’s work focuses on affirmative action, the black family, and black patriotism. As an economic theorist, Loury 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 been elected as a distinguished fellow of the American Economics Association, a member of the American Philosophical Society and of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Loury holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Northwestern and a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. He is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative, available in May 2024.