Seymour Melman

Seymour Melman (born December 30, 1917 in New York City; died December 16, 2004 in Manhattan of an apparent aneurism) was a professor emeritus of Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciencehttp://www.engineering.columbia.edu/ who wrote extensively for fifty years on "economic conversion," the ordered transition from military to civilian production by military industries and facilities. Author of "The Permanent War Economy" and "Pentagon Capitalism", this economist, writer, and gadfly of the military industrial complex, died in his Manhattan home of an aneurysm on December 16 2004.

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December 30 - 1917 - New York City - December 16 - 2004 - Manhattan - Columbia University - Aneurysm

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