Perverse Consequence of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban

When: Tue, April 1, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Where: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/tuesday-forum-perverse-consequence-well-intentioned-regulation-evidence-indias-child-labor

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Can our science and technology policies do more to help U.S. jobs?

When: Tue, April 8, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Where: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/tuesday-policy-forum-can-our-science-and-technology-policies-do-more-help-us-jobs

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Italy, Europe, and the US Trans Atlantic Partnership - Shrinking The Atlantic in an Era of Globalization and Regionalization

When: Thu, April 3, 12:15pm – 1:20pm
Where: Van Munching Hall, Public Policy Atrium
Link: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/italian-ambassador-rsvp 

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Divided Society and the Democratic Ideal

Time: Thu, March 13, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: Policy Atrium, Van Munching Hall
Link: https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/schelling-lecture-divided-society-and-democratic-ideal

This talk is presented as the inaugural Thomas Schelling lecture.

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. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern University, 1972) and a Ph.D. in Economics (MIT, 1976).

As an academic economist, Professor Loury has published mainly in the areas of applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality. He has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Vice President of the American Economics Association, and President of the Eastern Economics Association. In 2005 he won the John von Neumann Award (given annually by the Rajk László College of the Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration to "an outstanding economist whose research has exerted a major influence on students of the College over an extended period of time.") He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Scholarship to support his work. He has given the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford (2007), the James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics at Princeton (2003), and the DuBois Lectures in African American Studies at Harvard (2000.)

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).

The father of five and proud grandfather of six, Glenn C. Loury, a native of the Southside of Chicago, currently resides with his youngest children--his sons, Glenn II and Nehemiah--in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Fringe Diplomacy: The Space Beyond Government Authority in International Relations

Time: Wed, March 12, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1207 Van Munching Hall

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