CEQLS Lecture: Charles Murray: Collapse of the Welfare State and the European Social Model

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Charles Murray
Political Scientist and Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Collapse of the Welfare State and the European Social Model

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Charles Murray: CEQLS Lecture for the Conservative Institute, Bratislava, May 18, 2010

Charles Murray: Discussion after the CEQLS Lecture, Bratislava, May 18, 2010

About Charles Murray

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author and the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, where he now holds the W. H. Brady Chair in Culture and Freedom. He was raised in Newton, Iowa, graduated from Harvard College in 1965, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.

He is considered one of the most influential American thinkers in welfare policy. He received the Irving Kristol Award in 2009 which recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary intellectual or practical contributions to improved government policy or social welfare.

Charles Murray first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 (Basic Books, 1984), which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the US Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His 1994 New York Times bestseller, The Bell Curve (Free Press, 1994), coauthored with the late Richard J. Herrnstein, sparked heated controversy for its analysis of the role of IQ in shaping America’s class structure. Charles Murray reveals in his further book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (2006) the ineffectiveness of government redistribution plans and offers a radical new approach to social policy. His latest book, Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (Crown Forum, 2008), provides a framework for rethinking what parents should demand from an educational system.

Publications:

- A BEHAVIORAL STUDY OF RURAL MODERNIZATION: Social and Economic Change in Thai Villages. New York: Praeger, 1977
- BEYOND PROBATION: Juvenile Corrections and the Chronic Delinquent. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1979 (with Louis A. Cox, Jr.)
- LOSING GROUND: American Social Policy 1950–1980. New York: Basic Books, 1984
- IN PURSUIT: Of Happiness and Good Government. New York, 1988
- APOLLO: The Race to the Moon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989 (with Catherine Bly Cox)
- THE BELL CURVE: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. New York: The Free Press, 1994 (with Richard J. Herrnstein)
- WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A LIBERTARIAN: A Personal Interpretation. New York: Broadway Books, 1997
- DOES PRISON WORK? London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997
- INCOME INEQUALITY AND IQ. Washington: AEI Press, 1998
- THE UNDERCLASS REVISITED. Washington: AEI Press, 1999
- HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENT: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950. New York: HarperCollins, 2003
- IN OUR HANDS: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. Washington: AEI Press, 2006
- REAL EDUCATION: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality. New York: Crown Forum, 2008

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