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Seymour Melman

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Seymour Melman's Degrees

PhD Economics Columbia University
Masters Economics Columbia University
Bachelors Economics Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Seymour Melman was an American professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He 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, he was an economist, writer, and gadfly of the military-industrial complex.

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Seymour Melman's Published Works

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The permanent war economy : American capitalism in decline (1974) (171)
The Permanent War Economy (1974) (134)
Profits Without Production (1983) (115)
Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War (1970) (105)
The rise of administrative overhead in the manufacturing industries of The United States, 1899-1947 (1951) (71)
After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy (2001) (50)
Decision-making and productivity (1959) (41)
Dynamic Factors in Industrial Productivity. (1957) (41)
Our depleted society (1965) (35)
The war economy of the United States : readings on military industry and economy (1971) (23)
The demilitarized society: Disarmament and conversion (1988) (21)
Industrial Efficiency Under Managerial Vs. Cooperative Decision-Making: a Comparative Study of Manufacturing Enterprises in Israel (1970) (20)
From Private to State Capitalism: How the Permanent War Economy Transformed the Institutions of American Capitalism: Remarks Upon Receiving the Veblen-Commons Award (1997) (18)
Inspection for disarmament (1958) (16)
Economic Consequences of the Arms Race: The Second-Rate Economy (1988) (16)
The Defense Economy: Conversion of Industries and Occupations to Civilian Needs. (1970) (13)
The peace race (1962) (11)
Inflation and Unemployment as Products of War Economy (1978) (11)
Ten Propositions on the War Economy (1972) (11)
On the social cost of U.S. militarism. (1980) (9)
Limits of Military Power: Economic and Other (1986) (7)
The Impact of Economics on Technology (1975) (7)
Inflation under cost pass-along management (1979) (6)
Managerial versus cooperative decision making in Israel (1970) (6)
Problems of Conversion from Military to Civilian Economy An Agenda of Topics, Questions and Hypotheses (1985) (6)
Twelve Propositions on Productivity and War Economy (1975) (6)
Teaching about Reversing the Arms Race (1982) (5)
Production and Administration Cost in Relation to Size of Firm (1954) (4)
Successful Conversion Experiences (1992) (4)
Alternatives for the Organization of Work in Computer‐Assisted Manufacturing (1984) (3)
Overkill and the Defense Budget. (1964) (3)
Alternative criteria for the design of means of production (1981) (3)
Decision Making and Productivity as Economic Variables: The Present Depression as a Failure of Productivity (1976) (3)
Economic Alternatives to Arms Prosperity (1964) (2)
CONVERSION FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN ECONOMY (1981) (2)
Twelve Propositions on Productivity and the War Economy (1975) (1)
How Can Inspection Be Made To Work (1958) (1)
The Peaceful World of Economics I (1972) (1)
Economic and Other (1986) (1)
After the Military—Industrial Complex? (1971) (1)
AN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN THE COTTON SOUTH (1949) (1)
Too Much Defense Spending?—ThereIsan Alternative (1963) (1)
Will the First Step Be the Last? (1982) (1)
Productivity Change as a Function of Variation in Microeconomy (1981) (0)
Economics W3257x. The War Economy, Fall 1980 (1981) (0)
Power and Military Impotence (1973) (0)
Engineering job stability and economic conversion (1979) (0)
Some Avoided Topics in Economics (1989) (0)
Machine Tools: A Backward Industry (1962) (0)
Law for Economic Conversion: Necessity and Characteristics (1988) (0)
Measuring the nation's wealth (1992) (0)
Book Review: Labor Conditions and Problems: Glasgow, Limited: A Case Study in Industrial War and Peace (1962) (0)
Of porpoises and bedbugs. (1966) (0)
Exiting from the Cold War: Problems of Economics and Politics (1990) (0)
Overkill and the Defense Budget (1964) (0)
The Government as Manager: Weapons Procurement (1981) (0)
GREETINGS FROM THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (1972) (0)
General Discussion (1969) (0)
Of Porpoises and Bedbugs (1966) (0)
American Needs, and Limits on Resources: The Priorities Problem (1967) (0)
The Veblen-Commons Award (1997) (0)
Why productivity Varies (1957) (0)
Selected Studies in Alternative Man-Hour Costs (1957) (0)
The Political Economy of Economic Conversion for Reversing the Arms Race (1984) (0)
Book Reviews (1985) (0)
Limits of Military Power for National Security. (1981) (0)
A strategy for American security: An alternative to the 1964 military budget (1963) (0)
Glasgow, Limited: A Case Study in Industrial War and Peace. (1962) (0)
GREETINGS FROM THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (1972) (0)
Dynamic Factors in Industrial Productivity.@@@Foundations of Productivity Analysis. (1957) (0)
Alternatives for work organization in computer-aided manufacturing (1986) (0)
Economics (1985) (0)
On Students and the Draft (1966) (0)
Book Review:Military Spending and Industrial Decline: A Study of the American Machine Tool Industry Anthony DiFilippo (1987) (0)

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