Charles Murray (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Charles Alan Murray (born 1943) is an influential right-wing American policy writer and researcher. He is most widely known for Losing Ground, his influential work on welfare reform, Human Accomplishment, a quantification and ranking of well-known scientists and artists and as co-author (with Richard J. Herrnstein) of The Bell Curve in 1994, exploring the role of intelligence in American life. He's written several other books on modern social issues and politics, and has sometimes written on libertarian perspectives. ..."
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Associations
W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Web Pages
Charles Murray - Libertarian
Advocates for Self-Government
Advocates for Self-Government
Articles
A Man, a Plan, a Flop, by David Gordon, Mises.org Daily Article, 23 Apr 2006
A review of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
"Charles Murray, by his own account, should not have written In Our Hands. He identifies a genuine problem ... Murray surprisingly agrees that a laissez-faire policy is better than his own plan. ... Murray rejects the libertarian approach because it is unacceptable to the American public. ... It transpires that he is not really a libertarian at all ..."
A review of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
"Charles Murray, by his own account, should not have written In Our Hands. He identifies a genuine problem ... Murray surprisingly agrees that a laissez-faire policy is better than his own plan. ... Murray rejects the libertarian approach because it is unacceptable to the American public. ... It transpires that he is not really a libertarian at all ..."
In Memoriam [PDF], by Jeff Riggenbach, ALF News, 2006
Related Topics: Joan Kennedy Taylor, Roy A. Childs, Jr., Foundation for Economic Education, Barry Goldwater
Biographical essay covering Joan Kennedy Taylor's varied career
"As publications director at the Manhattan Institute in the early 1980s, she shepherded a new book on welfare policy by a virtually unknown writer she had discovered named Charles Murray – a book called Losing Ground – from manuscript to national bestseller."
Related Topics: Joan Kennedy Taylor, Roy A. Childs, Jr., Foundation for Economic Education, Barry Goldwater
Biographical essay covering Joan Kennedy Taylor's varied career
"As publications director at the Manhattan Institute in the early 1980s, she shepherded a new book on welfare policy by a virtually unknown writer she had discovered named Charles Murray – a book called Losing Ground – from manuscript to national bestseller."
Books Authored
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, 2003
Related Topic: Achievement
Related Topic: Achievement
- ISBN 0060577223: Audio cassette, HarperAudio, Abridged edition, 2003
- ISBN 006019247X: Hardcover, HarperCollins, 2003
- ISBN 0060929642: Paperback, Harper Perennial, Reprint edition, 2004
In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government, Oct 1988
Related Topic: Pursuit of Happiness
Related Topic: Pursuit of Happiness
- ISBN 0786100613: Audio cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997
- ISBN 0671611003: Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, 1988
- ISBN 1558152970: Paperback, ICS Press, 1994
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, 1984
- ISBN 0786100761: Audio cassette, Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997
- ISBN 0465042317: Hardcover, Basic Books, 1984
- ISBN 0465042325: Paperback, Basic Books, 1986
- ISBN 0465042333: Paperback, Basic Books, 10th Anniv edition, 1994
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
by Charles Murray, Richard Herrnstein, 1994
by Charles Murray, Richard Herrnstein, 1994
- ISBN 067152979X: Audio cassette, Audioworks, Abridged edition, 1999
- ISBN 0029146739: Hardcover, Free Press, 1994
- ISBN 0684824299: Paperback, Free Press, 1996
What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation, 1997
Related Topic: Libertarianism
Related Topic: Libertarianism
- ISBN 0553069284: Hardcover, Broadway Books, 1997
- ISBN 0767900391: Paperback, Broadway Books, Reprint edition, 1997