What Charles Murray thinks about behavioural science

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Political scientist, born in 1943, whose Losing Ground (1984) argued that US welfare programs from the 1960s on made poverty worse by rewarding behaviour that kept people poor.

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   Our readingThe new welfare rules made short-term behaviour that was destructive in the long term profitable for the poor

   Their wordsThe first effect of the new rules was to make it profitable for the poor to behave in the short term in ways that were destructive in the long term.

   ↗Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (Basic Books, 1984)archive.org All 5 from this book