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. #BLM #Racism #Trump -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56:35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conversations feature John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, interviewing the world's foremost thought leaders about today's pressing social, cultural and political issues. John believes proper, robust dialogue is necessary if we are to maintain our social strength and cohesion. As he puts it; "You cannot get good public policy out of a bad public debate." If you value this discussion and want to see more like it, make sure you subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtnYSEGViOnb7k8ezUaWUww?sub_confirmation=1 And stay right up to date with all the conversations by subscribing to the newsletter here: https://johnanderson.net.au/contact/ Follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnAndersonAC Follow John on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnandersonac/ Follow John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-anderson-ao Support the channel: https://johnanderson.net.au/support/ Website: https://johnanderson.net.au/ Podcast: https://johnanderson.net.au/podcasts/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Loury https://twitter.com/GlennLoury https://www.facebook.com/glenn.loury1 https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/