Glenn C Loury
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1455096 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Glenn C Loury |
| PRENOMES | Glenn C |
| SOBRENOME | Loury |
| ASSINATURA | LOURY G C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Limits of Meritocracy in a Racially Divided Society
This article distinguishes between “thin” and “thick” meritocracy in order to clarify contemporary debates about race, inequality, and equal opportunity. Thin meritocracy focuses exclusively on fairness at the point of selection—neutral rules and race-blind procedures governing the allocation of scarce opportunities. Thick meritocracy retains procedural neutrality while also addressing the formative institutional and relational conditions under w…
Detention, Democracy, and Inequality in a Divided Society
incarceration; race; crime; social responsibility; social justice
Social externalities, overlap and the poverty trap
Valuing Diversity
This paper explores the economics of diversity-enhancing policies. A model is proposed in which heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, purchase productive opportunities in a competitive market. We analyze policies designed to raise the status of a disadvantaged identity group. When agent identity is contractible, efficient policy grants preferred access to slots but offers no direct assistance for acquiring skills…
Crime, inequality & social justice
Introduction
Work and Welfare
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only …
Group Reputation and the Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination
Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate—at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising—is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is 6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12…
Transgenerational Justice-Compensatory Versus Interpretative Approaches
Should African Americans, in keeping with an idea of transgenerational justice, receive ‘reparations’ for the historical crimes of slavery and Jim Crow segregation? That question is being asked with growing intensity across America. If one understands by reparations the receipt of financial transfers as compensation for historical crimes, my answer to this question is a resounding, ‘No: On the other hand, if one intends by such advocacy to urge o…
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy
This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as educat…
Affirmative action in winner-take-all markets
"Dysfunctional Identities" Can Be Rational
Understanding the nature and sources of human identity is an important objective in the study of a variety of social problems. Scholarly and popular writing on the cultural determinants of economic disadvantage underscores this point. Some analysts (e.g., Edward Banfield, 1970; Thomas Sowell, 1994; John McWhorter, 2000; John Ogbu, 2003) have hypothesized that a causal connection exists between the poor social performance of a group of people and …
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology
For more than three decades, critics and supporters of affirmative action have fought for the moral high ground through ballot initiatives and lawsuits, in state legislatures, and in varied courts of public opinion. The goal of this paper is to show the clarifying power of economic reasoning to dispel some myths and misconceptions in the racial affirmative action debates. We enumerate seven commonly held (but mistaken) views one often encounters …
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
outline a theory of “race ” applicable to the social and historical circumstances of the United States; sketch an account of why racial inequality in our society is so stubbornly persistent; and, offer a conceptual framework for the practice of social criticism on race-related issues that might encourage reflection among our political and intellectual elite, and in this way promote social reform. These objectives are subsumed, respectively, in su…
Distribution of Ability and Earnings in a Hierarchical Job Assignment Model
We examine the mapping of the distribution of ability onto earnings in a hierarchical job assignment model. Workers are assigned to a continuum of jobs in fixed proportions, ordered by sensitivity to ability. The model implies a novel marginal productivity interpretation of wages. We derive comparative statics for changes in technology and in the distribution of ability. We find conditions under which a more unequal distribution of ability maps o…
Won't Get Fooled Again
A Response
Getting beyond Affirmative Action
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
Twenty-Five Years of Black America
The nature of social and economic inequality as it exists now between Blacks and Whites in the United States is explored in this paper. Summary statistics on education, earnings, employment, family structure, incarceration and life expectancy are presented by age, sex and race. It is suggested that, while progress has been made in narrowing the racial gap in social standing, there remains a significant disparity that warrants continuing concern
Who Cares about Racial Inequality
The issue of Affirmative Action is discussed, identifying some difficulties with the way that this policy has been pursued in the past: Racial preferences can be a poorly targeted method of closing the gap in social status between Blacks and Whites, and can have negative unintended consequences for incentives and for the reputations of its beneficiaries. Nevertheless, it is argued that some form of affirmative action continues to be needed. The c…
The Shape of the River
This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. The Shape of the River is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of its kind. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and clearly defines the effects they have had on over 45,000 students of different races. Its conclusions mark a turning point in national discussions of affirmative action-…
Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This comment argues that discrimination against blacks remains important, especially in labor markets, but that its extent is modest both by historical standards and in relation to supply-side racial disparities. It contends that the racial skills gap is endogenous, reflecting the effects of historical and ongoing discrimination; and that the moral obligation to reduce disparities in skills between the races is no less than the obligation to figh…
Not by Bread Alone
Glenn C. Loury, Linda Datcher Loury, Not by Bread Alone: The Role of the African-American Church in Inner-City Development, The Brookings Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 15th Anniversary Issue (Winter, 1997), pp. 10-13
Self-Censorship in Public Discourse
Uncertainty about what motivates "senders" of public messages leads "receivers" to "read between the lines" to discern the sender's deepest commitments. Anticipating this, senders "write between the lines," editing their expressions so as to further their own ends. I examine how this interactive process of inference and deceit affects the quality and extent of public deliberations on sensitive issues. A principle conclusion is that genuine moral …
"Dysfunctional Identities" Can Be Rational
Understanding the nature and sources of human identity is an important objective in the study of a variety of social problems. Scholarly and popular writing on the cultural determinants of economic disadvantage underscores this point. Some analysts (e.g., Edward Banfield, 1970; Thomas Sowell, 1994; John McWhorter, 2000; John Ogbu, 2003) have hypothesized that a causal connection exists between the poor social performance of a group of people and …
Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This comment argues that discrimination against blacks remains important, especially in labor markets, but that its extent is modest both by historical standards and in relation to supply-side racial disparities. It contends that the racial skills gap is endogenous, reflecting the effects of historical and ongoing discrimination; and that the moral obligation to reduce disparities in skills between the races is no less than the obligation to figh…
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology
For more than three decades, critics and supporters of affirmative action have fought for the moral high ground through ballot initiatives and lawsuits, in state legislatures, and in varied courts of public opinion. The goal of this paper is to show the clarifying power of economic reasoning to dispel some myths and misconceptions in the racial affirmative action debates. We enumerate seven commonly held (but mistaken) views one often encounters …
Valuing Diversity
This paper explores the economics of diversity-enhancing policies. A model is proposed in which heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, purchase productive opportunities in a competitive market. We analyze policies designed to raise the status of a disadvantaged identity group. When agent identity is contractible, efficient policy grants preferred access to slots but offers no direct assistance for acquiring skills…
Introduction
Affirmative action in winner-take-all markets
Distribution of Ability and Earnings in a Hierarchical Job Assignment Model
We examine the mapping of the distribution of ability onto earnings in a hierarchical job assignment model. Workers are assigned to a continuum of jobs in fixed proportions, ordered by sensitivity to ability. The model implies a novel marginal productivity interpretation of wages. We derive comparative statics for changes in technology and in the distribution of ability. We find conditions under which a more unequal distribution of ability maps o…
Internally Directed Action for Black Community Development
The minimum border length hypothesis does not explain the shape of black ghettos
Crime, inequality & social justice
Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action
This article illustrates with a formal economic model a concern often raised by critics of affirmative action—that the policy may discourage its beneficiaries from acquiring work skills. Ironically, this can happen for reasons analogous to those evoked to explain why discrimination may discourage its victims from investing in skills: when skilled workers are less likely to succeed, fewer find it worthwhile to become skilled. Similarly, when unski…
Embargo Threats and the Management of Emergency Reserves
Black Economic Progress
The minimum border length hypothesis does not explain the shape of black ghettos
In Defense of Public Policy Aimed at Reducing Racial Economic Disparity
Black Economic Progress
Intergenerational Transfers and the Distribution of Earnings
Economics, Politics, and Blacks
Internally Directed Action for Black Community Development
Embargo Threats and the Management of Emergency Reserves
Why Should We Care about Group Inequality?
This essay is about the ethical propriety and practical efficacy of a range of policy undertakings which, in the last twenty years, has come to be referred to as “affirmative action.” These policies have been contentious and problematic, and a variety of arguments have been advanced in their support. Here I try to close a gap, as I see it, in this “literature of justification” which has grown up around the practice of preferential treatment. My p…
Why Steele demands more of blacks than of whites
Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action
This article illustrates with a formal economic model a concern often raised by critics of affirmative action—that the policy may discourage its beneficiaries from acquiring work skills. Ironically, this can happen for reasons analogous to those evoked to explain why discrimination may discourage its victims from investing in skills: when skilled workers are less likely to succeed, fewer find it worthwhile to become skilled. Similarly, when unski…
"Comment on the Article by Dean Foster and Rakesh Vohra, "An Economic Argument for Affirmative Action
Self-Censorship in Public Discourse
Uncertainty about what motivates "senders" of public messages leads "receivers" to "read between the lines" to discern the sender's deepest commitments. Anticipating this, senders "write between the lines," editing their expressions so as to further their own ends. I examine how this interactive process of inference and deceit affects the quality and extent of public deliberations on sensitive issues. A principle conclusion is that genuine moral …
Response to Comment of Mike Reay
Response to Ryan
Not by Bread Alone
Glenn C. Loury, Linda Datcher Loury, Not by Bread Alone: The Role of the African-American Church in Inner-City Development, The Brookings Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 15th Anniversary Issue (Winter, 1997), pp. 10-13
The Shape of the River
This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. The Shape of the River is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of its kind. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and clearly defines the effects they have had on over 45,000 students of different races. Its conclusions mark a turning point in national discussions of affirmative action-…
Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This comment argues that discrimination against blacks remains important, especially in labor markets, but that its extent is modest both by historical standards and in relation to supply-side racial disparities. It contends that the racial skills gap is endogenous, reflecting the effects of historical and ongoing discrimination; and that the moral obligation to reduce disparities in skills between the races is no less than the obligation to figh…
Twenty-Five Years of Black America
The nature of social and economic inequality as it exists now between Blacks and Whites in the United States is explored in this paper. Summary statistics on education, earnings, employment, family structure, incarceration and life expectancy are presented by age, sex and race. It is suggested that, while progress has been made in narrowing the racial gap in social standing, there remains a significant disparity that warrants continuing concern
Who Cares about Racial Inequality
The issue of Affirmative Action is discussed, identifying some difficulties with the way that this policy has been pursued in the past: Racial preferences can be a poorly targeted method of closing the gap in social status between Blacks and Whites, and can have negative unintended consequences for incentives and for the reputations of its beneficiaries. Nevertheless, it is argued that some form of affirmative action continues to be needed. The c…
Understanding Poverty
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. This book brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the 21st century
Getting beyond Affirmative Action
Won't Get Fooled Again
A Response
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
outline a theory of “race ” applicable to the social and historical circumstances of the United States; sketch an account of why racial inequality in our society is so stubbornly persistent; and, offer a conceptual framework for the practice of social criticism on race-related issues that might encourage reflection among our political and intellectual elite, and in this way promote social reform. These objectives are subsumed, respectively, in su…
Distribution of Ability and Earnings in a Hierarchical Job Assignment Model
We examine the mapping of the distribution of ability onto earnings in a hierarchical job assignment model. Workers are assigned to a continuum of jobs in fixed proportions, ordered by sensitivity to ability. The model implies a novel marginal productivity interpretation of wages. We derive comparative statics for changes in technology and in the distribution of ability. We find conditions under which a more unequal distribution of ability maps o…
Political science (27 obras) · Economics (22 obras) · Sociology (20 obras) · Law (19 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Inequality (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Mathematics (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Affirmative action (7 obras)