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.

Books

• Dynamic factors in industrial productivity (New York, Wiley, 1956)
• Decision Making and Productivity (1958)
• Inspection for Disarmament (1958) editor
• The Peace Race (1961)
• No Place to Hide Fallout Shelters-Fact and Fiction (1962) editor
• Disarmament; Its Politics And Economics (1962) editor
• Our Depleted Society (1965)
• In the name of America; the conduct of the war in Vietnam by the armed forces of the United States as shown by published reports, compared with the laws of war binding on the United States Government and on its citizens Director of research, Seymour Melman. Research associates: Melvyn Baron Dodge Ely. Publisher Clergy and Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, (1968)
• The defense economy; conversion of industries and occupations to civilian needs (New York, Praeger 1970)
• Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1970)
• The war economy of the United States; readings on military industry and economy (New York, St. Martin's Press )
• Profits without Production (October 1983) ISBN 0394518950
• The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline (rev. ed.; NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985). ISBN 0671606433
• The Demilitarized Society: Disarmament & Conversion (Montreal: Harvest House, 1988). ISBN 0887722210
• Rebuilding America: A New Economic Plan for the 1990s (Westfield NJ: Open Media, 1992).
• After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Economy (NY: Knopf, 2001). ISBN 0679418598