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.

Education

He studied at the De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx and received his undergraduate degree from the College of the City of New York in 1939. After graduation he received a travel fellowship and traveled to Palestine and Europe between 1939 and 1940. Upon returning to the United States he served for two years as the secretary of the Student Zionist Federation. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he served in the US Army as a First Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corp. Afterwards he served on the National Industrial Conference Board. He became a graduate student at Columbia University in January, 1945 and received his Ph.D. in June, 1949.

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De Witt Clinton High School - Bronx - College of the City of New York - 1939 - Palestine - Europe - United States - Student Zionist Federation - Attack on Pearl Harbor - US Army - Coast Artillery Corp - National Industrial Conference Board - Columbia University - Ph.D.

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Melman was the former President of the Association for Evolutionary Economics, Vice President of the New York Academy of Sciences, co-chair of SANE (Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy), chair of The National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament, and currently a participant in the Reindustrialization of the United States Project.

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Association for Evolutionary Economics - New York Academy of Sciences - SANE - National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament - Reindustrialization of the United States

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In 1976 SANE's New York City conference on "The Arms Race and the Economic Crisis" featured Melman, and won an economic conversion plank in the Democratic party platform.

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