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Books In Brief (2).(Review)(Brief Article)
Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness, by James Arnt Aune (Guilford, 215 pp., $23.95)
James Arnt Aune, a self-proclaimed "old-fashioned socialist" rhetorician from Pennsylvania State University, aims to refute "both the language and the logic of the market revolution." He promises something potentially valuable: a scholarly assessment of free-market argumentation that isn't strictly economic or ethical. Aune summarizes the argumentative techniques and conclusions of conservative and libertarian thinkers and popularizers, giving special attention to Ronald Reagan, Richard Posner, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Murray. But he's not out to help his readers understand these writers and their arguments; instead he is here to deplore them. Rather than those of the rhetorician, his complaints are those ...
- Charles Murray: Ending Welfare As We Knew It.("Charles Murray's Losing Ground:...
- Magazine article from: National Review Magnet, Myron December 19, 2005 700+ words
CHARLES MURRAY Ending Welfare As We Knew It THERE'S no better proof of the adage that ideas have consequences than Charles Murray's Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980. The magisterial 1984 classic provides a double measure...
- Author Charles Murray Defends His Theories
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered October 28, 1994 700+ words
...real underclass at the left. Authors Charles Murray and the late Richard Hearnstein [sp...will debunk the book in due course. Charles Murray has been accused of being a racist...in the 800 pages of The Bell Curve. CHARLES MURRAY, Author: In one way, you're talking...
- Welfare lines. (Charles Murray's changing views on welfare reform)
- Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Allen, Charlotte December 1, 1994 700+ words
...fight the competing influences. --Charles Murray, arguing for the abolition of welfare...distribution." --Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, arguing for the abolition of welfare...The Bell Curve, 1994 Ten years ago, Charles Murray published Losing Ground, a pathfinding...
- Charles Murray and Albert Einstein.
- Magazine article from: The Humanist Reiland, Ralph R. March 1, 1995 700+ words
In their recent book The Bell Curve, Charles Murray and Richard Herrn stein rank the races by IQ with Asians...yourself." And that's the problem with the assertions of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. For black children who need a...
- Transcendental goods: Charles Murray discusses art, accomplishment, faith, and...
- Magazine article from: Reason Bailey, Ronald Gillespie, Nick April 1, 2004 700+ words
CHARLES MURRAY IS the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom at the American...discuss Human Accomplishment. reason: Why did you write this book? Charles Murray: I wrote a book that I wanted to read. I am fascinated by greatness...
- Gaining ground. (analysis of Charles Murray's Losing Ground book)
- Magazine article from: National Review May 3, 1985 700+ words
...MICHAEL HARRINGTON'S The Other America was for the 1960s, Charles Murray's Losing Ground promises to be for the rest of the 1980s...flowed into the acronymic programs of the Great Society. Charles Murray has discovered that the programs did not work, and has...
- What do we owe the poor? // Jesse Jackson, Charles Murray debate government's...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times July 13, 1986 700+ words
...denigrating the value of hard work. So why not dismantle it? Charles Murray's Losing Ground is the most influential presentation of...poverty in the United States. That exchange is printed here: CHARLES MURRAY: How can government help the poor? The problem is that...
- TRUMP PLAZA HOTEL AND CASINO TO PRESENT CHARLES MURRAY VS. JERRY SMITH BOUT
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 2, 1992 700+ words
TRUMP PLAZA HOTEL AND CASINO TO PRESENT CHARLES MURRAY VS. JERRY SMITH BOUT Who: Charles Murray (25-1, 16 KOs) vs. Jerry Smith (13-12, 7 KOs). What: 10-round, non-title junior welterweight bout. Where: Trump Regency Hotel...
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