Charles Murray

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]

Charles Murray
Born	Charles Alan Murray (1943-01-08) January 8, 1943 (age 82) Newton, Iowa, U.S.
Spouses	Suchart Dej-Udom ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1980)​ Catherine Bly Cox ​ (m. 1983)​
Children	4
Awards	Irving Kristol Award (2009) Kistler Prize (2011)
Scholarly background
Education	Harvard University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD)
Thesis	Investment and Tithing in Thai Villages: A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Lucian Pye
Scholarly work
Discipline	Political science
School or tradition	Right-libertarianism
Institutions	American Institutes for Research Manhattan Institute for Policy Research American Enterprise Institute
Main interests	Race and intelligence Social welfare policy
Notable works	Losing Ground (1984) The Bell Curve (1994) Coming Apart (2012)

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 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]