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

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