Judge Glock

Judge Glock is the director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal. He specializes in economic policy and civil service reform, with a focus on the intersection of economics, finance, and housing.

Before joining the Manhattan Institute, Glock served as the senior director of policy and research at the Cicero Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Austin, and as a visiting professor of economics at West Virginia University. His background in economic history informs his work, and he writes about public finance, monetary policy, regulatory reform, and urban affairs.

Glock's work has been featured in National Affairs, Tax Notes, the Journal of American History, NPR, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among other places. He is the author of The Dead Pledge: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939, published in 2021 by Columbia University Press.

He received his Ph.D. in history with a focus on economic history from Rutgers University and his undergraduate degree from William & Mary.