Charles Murray

Charles Murray
Born
Charles Alan Murray

(1943-01-08) January 8, 1943 (age 81)
Newton, Iowa, U.S.
Spouses
Suchart Dej-Udom
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(m. 1966; div. 1980)​
Catherine Bly Cox
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(m. 1983)​
Children4
AwardsIrving Kristol Award (2009)
Kistler Prize (2011)
Scholarly background
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD)
ThesisInvestment and Tithing in Thai Villages: A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization (1974)
Doctoral advisorLucian Pye
Scholarly work
DisciplinePolitical science
School or traditionRight-libertarianism
InstitutionsAmerican Institutes for Research
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
American Enterprise Institute
Main interestsRace and intelligence
Social welfare policy
Notable worksLosing Ground (1984)
The Bell Curve (1994)
Coming Apart (2012)

Charles Alan Murray (/ˈmɜːri/; born January 8, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC.[1]

Many people do not agree with Murray's work.[2][3][4][5][6] His book Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (1984) talks about the American welfare system. In the book The Bell Curve (1994), he and co-author Richard Herrnstein say that in 20th century American society, intelligence is more likely to predict the outcome of an issues than parental socioeconomic status or education level. These issues include income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime. They say that that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are not useful. The Bell Curve also claims that average intelligence quotient (IQ) differences between racial and ethnic groups are partly genetic in origin. This view is now considered to be not true by mainstream science.[7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Charles Murray AEI Scholar". American Enterprise Institute website. American Enterprise Institute. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ Martin, Michel (7 January 2018). "Controversial Social Scientist Charles Murray Retires". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Siegel, Eric (12 April 2017). "The Real Problem with Charles Murray and "The Bell Curve"". Scientific American. Archived from the original on July 30, 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. ↑ Lemann, Nicholas (18 January 1997). "The Bell Curve Flattened: Subsequent research has seriously undercut the claims of the controversial best seller". Slate. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Bell Curve author Charles Murray speaks out after speech cut short by protests". The Guardian. 2017-03-06. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
  6. ↑ Sehgal, Parul (12 February 2020). "Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  7. ↑ Evans, Gavin (2 March 2018). "The unwelcome revival of 'race science'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 20, 2019. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  8. ↑ Turkheimer, Eric; Harden, Kathryn Paige; Nisbett, Richard E. (June 15, 2017). "There's still no good reason to believe black-white IQ differences are due to genes". Vox. Vox Media. Archived from the original on May 4, 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  9. ↑ Panofsky, Aaron; Dasgupta, Kushan; Iturriaga, Nicole (2021). "How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175 (2): 387–398. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24150. PMC 9909835. PMID 32986847. S2CID 222163480.