Charles Murray (author)

Charles Murray ( born 1943 in Newton ( Iowa), USA) is an American political scientist and publicist. He was best known for his book The Bell Curve, which he wrote with Richard Herrnstein. He is since 1990 at the American Enterprise Institute engaged.

Life

Murray in 1943, born in the USA in Newton, Iowa, where he also grew up. He joined the Peace Corps and worked in Thailand from 1965 to 1970 especially with the Village Health Program. After this time he remained about three years of field research in Thailand, to which he returned again and again in subsequent years. Charles Murray earned the 1965 bachelor's degree in history at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1974 Ph.D. in political science. Between 1974 and 1981, Murray worked for the American Institutes for Research (AIR ), a private social science research organization on whose behalf he visited for field research in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal and Thailand. From 1982 to 1990 Murray worked at the Manhattan Institute and wrote at this time his first two works of Losing Ground and In Pursuit.

Since 1990, he continued his work at the American Enterprise Institute, for which he spent for field trials, but also for lectures lot of time in the UK. He was also an advisor to the Bulgarian Government and the OECD in 1991. For his work on The Bell Curve, he received financial support from the neo-conservative Bradley Foundation.

In 2009 he received from the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute, the Irving Kristol Award.

Work

Charles Murray is concerned in his works with various sociological as well as political issues. For the first time, the public interest in the United States, he attracted with his book Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, which was published in 1984. In it, he sat down with the controversial American social policy apart, with an emphasis on those President Johnson in the 1960s. He took the view that past for the needy national welfare and social programs you missed the mark and did not contribute to improving the situation of the people, but rather to their deterioration. Murray summarized this development in the formula " More money increased poverty " and argued vehemently for the abolition of social assistance.

In his book Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950, which he published in 2003, provides a ranking of the Murray in his opinion, the most important scientists and artists in the period between 800 BC. until 1950. Murray sees Europe between 800 BC. and 1950 as the driving force for social, scientific and cultural progress, which is also reflected in his collection. The criterion for the importance of the Murray draws people here approach the number of mentions in historical and biographical reference books and encyclopedias significant. In this context, an essay Murray stood in time. Noteworthy is the small number of only 42 women to be called. Murray justifies this on the one hand with the subordinate position of women in all societies had, on the other hand. Using the typical role as a mother who directs the whole attention of the woman on the education of children

In addition to his books and articles in professional journals Murray wrote, among other article in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and especially The Public Interest. He himself appeared on the front pages of newspapers and magazines and was invited in political television broadcasts. Furthermore, his name often appears in lists of the most important political scientists, affect the policy of the United States. He was repeatedly invited to interviews with experts in various committees of the Senate, Congress, and by the OECD.

In 2009, Murray turned against the policies of the then newly elected President Barack Obama and warned in general against an assumed he development of the " Europeanization " of the United States. This " Europe 's syndrome ," as it is called Murray, contains, according to Murray, among others, a poor attitude to life, which would leave only connect a hard time with religion.

In his 2012 study published Coming Apart Murray dealt with the drifting apart of the white majority population of the U.S. into a "new upper class " and a "new lower class ", which barely have common ways of life and values.

Critic

Prominent critics of Murray, for example Leon fireplace, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould and Steven P. Rose.

Publications

  • A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization: Social and Economic Change in Thai Villages ( Praeger Publishers, 1977)
  • Beyond Probation: Juvenile Corrections and the Chronic Delinquent - co -authored with Louis A. Cox, Jr. ( Sage Publications, 1979)
  • Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, Basic Books (1984 )
  • In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government, Simon & Schuster ( 1989)
  • Apollo: The Behind-the- Scenes Story of One of Humankind 's Greatest Achievements - co -authored by Catherine Bly Cox, Simon & Schuster, 1989.
  • The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, with Richard J. Herrnstein ( 1994)
  • What it Means to be a Libertarian, Broadway Books ( 1997)
  • Income Inequality and IQ, AEI Press ( 1998)
  • The Underclass Revisited, AEI Press (1999 )
  • Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950, Harper Collins ( 2003)
  • In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, AEI Press ( 2006) ISBN 0-8447-4223-6
  • Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Crown Forum (2012 ), ISBN 978-0307453426.
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