Glenn C. Loury. Ph.D. , at Brown University, (Ph.D. at MIT, 1976)
Northwestern University, assistant professor of economics, 1976-79; University of Michigan, associate professor, 1979-80, professor of economics, 1980-82; Harvard University, professor of economics and Afro-American studies, 1982-84, professor of political economy, 1984-91; Boston University, professor of economics, 1991-; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Bradley Lecturer, 1992, 1994; visiting lecturer at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, including Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, and University of Stockholm. Loury made his mark as a distinguished academic economist with specific focus on the fields of welfare economics, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution. He was even considered to be the top candidate for the position of under secretary of education in the Reagan administration before withdrawing his name from consideration.
