Melman, Seymour

Melman, Seymour. 1970. Pentagon Capitalism The Political Economy of War. New York McGraw-Hill. 

Mary Kaldor, The Baroque Arsenal (London Deutsch, 1982). Seymour Melman, The Permanent War Economy American Capitalism in Decline, rev. edn (New York Touchstone, 1985), argues that American experience shows that lack of effective competition results in unnecessarily expensive products. 

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