Not by Bread Alone

The task of the social scientist and theorist is to help us learn about ourselves, about the determinants and implications of human behavior. Often, the social scientist and theorist can help us evaluate our public policies and priorities. Professor Glenn C. Loury, an increasingly prominent economist and public intellectual who is currently Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University, has made significant, policy-relevant contributions to scholarly and public discourse in this vein, particularly in matters pertaining to persistent racial inequality, crime and punishment, and social policy.