Charles Alan Murray is an American political scientist and author. His book Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980, which discussed the American welfare system, was widely read and discussed, and influenced government policy.He wrote the controversial book The Bell Curve, written with Richard Herrnstein, in which he argues that intelligence is a better predictor than parental socio-economic 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 wasted.
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