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Yates Lecture 2010
January 15, 2010
The Murphy Institute cordially invites you to its annual Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture:
"Obama is No King: On the Fracturing of the Black Prophetic Tradition"
by
Glenn C. Loury
Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 4:00 PM
Tulane University
Lavin-Bernick Center
Qatar Ballroom (Room 212)
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University.
A distinguished economist at Brown University, Loury has contributed to a variety of areas in applied microeconomic theory: welfare economics, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of income distribution.
In addition, Loury is a widely-recognized social critic and award-winning writer. Loury is the author of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality and One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America, for which he won the American Book Award. His over 200 essays and reviews on racial inequality and social policy have appeared in dozens of influential journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad.
Loury is also a frequent commentator on national radio and television, and an advisor on social issues to business and political leaders throughout the country. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic, and currently serves on the editorial advisory board of The American Interest.
The Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture, endowed in 1996 by Murphy Institute alumna Rebecca Yates (‘89) Velander in memory of her mother, is the Murphy Institute’s major public academic event. Designed to promote university-wide discussion of issues of current concern, the annual Yates Lecture brings leading thinkers and public figures to the Tulane campus.
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Established in memory of Charles H. Murphy, Sr. (1870-1954), and inspired by the vision of Charles H. Murphy, Jr. (1920-2002), the Murphy Institute exists to help Tulane faculty and students understand economic, moral, and political problems we all face and think about. More important, it exists to help us understand how these problems have come to be so closely interconnected. many ways to Tulane University’s core academic mission.
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