The Global Wire Conversation - Race, Economics, and Culture with Glenn Loury

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In today's conversation, Ralph talks to professor Glenn Loury about race, culture and economics. You can also find this conversation on our YouTube Channel. Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and the University of Michigan. As a prominent social critic and public intellectual, writing mainly on the themes of racial inequality and social policy, Professor Loury has published over 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a contributing editor at The Boston Review, and was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic. Professor Loury’s books include One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (The Free Press, 1995 – winner of the American Book Award and the Christianity Today Book Award); The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2002); Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK (ed., Cambridge University Press, 2005); and, Race, Incarceration and American Values (M.I.T. Press, 2008). You can follow Professor Loury's commentary on "The Glenn Show" on bloggingheads.tv and also follow him on twitter https://twitter.com/GlennLoury --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the1020/support