Archive for Charles Murray
Perspective: Toward Jeffersonian Self-Government
My idealistic and distinctly unpragmatic stance toward social policy is to say that local control, the voluntary coming together of neighbors, and responsibility for one’s own life are good things for everyone, not just the middle class, that they are the basis for the pursuit of happiness—that the way to help the underclass live satisfying [...]
1Apr1992 | Charles Murray | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Constraints on Helping
Charles Murray is a senior research fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the author of several books including Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (© 1984 by Charles Murray) from which this essay is adapted and reprinted with permission of Basic Books, Inc, There are laws that explain why social programs not [...]
1Feb1986 | Charles Murray | 0 comments | Continued-
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