Glenn C. LOURY

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Glenn C. Loury is currently the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. In 1982, at the age of 33, he became the first African American tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University. He has also taught at Boston University.

Loury's areas of study include applied microeconomic theory: public economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, the economics of income distribution, and discrimination. He has published a number of influential pioneering articles in these areas. In addition to economics, he has also written extensively on the themes of racial inequality and social policy.

Loury is a member of the Econometric Society, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Philosophical Society. He served as president of the Eastern Economics Association and Vice President of the American Economics Society. Loury is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a main academic contributor to the 1776 Unites project.

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