Prof. Glenn Loury | Systemic Racism, Trump and BLM

In this Direct episode, John is joined by Professor Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. They discuss the current political, social and economic issues facing the US, and the Western world more broadly, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the popular idea of 'systemic racism', the upcoming 2020 U.S. election and more.

Professor Loury has enjoyed an extraordinary career. At age 33, he became the first black tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University. He has made scholarly contributions to the fields of welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics and the economics of income distribution. Loury is also a prominent social critic and public intellectual, publishing essays on racial inequality and social policy in dozens of influential journals of public affairs.

Over his career, Loury has held academic positions at Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Stockholm, the Delhi School of Economics, the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

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