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Charles Murray

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Charles Alan Murray (; 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, D.C. Murray's work is highly controversial. His book Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 (1984) discussed the American welfare system. In the book The Bell Curve (1994), he and co-author Richard Herrnstein argue that in 20th-century American society, intelligence became a better predictor than parental socioeconomic status or education level of many individual outcomes, including income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime, and that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are largely counterproductive. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Murray is the 27th most popular political scientist (up from 40th in 2019), the 4,417th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,693rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Political Scientist.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Charles Murray ranks 27 out of 46. Before him are Graham Allison, Karine Jean-Pierre, Rahime Perestu Sultan, Ilan Pappé, Arend Lijphart, and James Flynn. After him are Norman Finkelstein, William Graham Sumner, Robert D. Putnam, Michel Pablo, Hayranidil Kadın, and Robert Keohane.

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Among people born in 1943, Charles Murray ranks 274. Before him are Angélica María, Marika Green, Antal Dunai, Joselito, Iñaki Sáez, and Tim Krabbé. After him are Jimmy Wang Yu, Dagmar Lassander, Clément Mouamba, Jim Croce, Dušan Uhrin, and Carolyn Schuler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Murray ranks 4,417 out of 20,380. Before him are Sonny Landham (1941), Fritz Hollings (1922), Lydia Clarke (1923), Traci Lords (1968), Warren Weaver (1894), and William Baumol (1922). After him are Philo Farnsworth (1906), Joe Pass (1929), Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872), Jennifer Morrison (1979), Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893), and Richard Carpenter (1946).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Charles Murray ranks 10. Before him are Harold Lasswell (1902), Joseph Nye (1937), John Mearsheimer (1947), Gene Sharp (1928), Graham Allison (1940), and James Flynn (1934). After him are Norman Finkelstein (1953), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert D. Putnam (1941), Robert Keohane (1941), Alexis Herman (1947), and Sidney Verba (1932).

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