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Article: New Seymour Melman Work Debuts in Vanderbilt Journal; AmeriQuests Publishes War, Inc., a Critique of America's Permanent War Economy.
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- April 30, 2008
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Byline: Vanderbilt University
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A posthumous book by social critic Seymour Melman has been published by the Vanderbilt University online journal AmeriQuests.
War, Inc., is a concise overview of America's shift to a "permanent war economy" after World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Melman outlines the consequences of the shift - faltering American infrastructure, lost jobs and growing disparity between the superrich and everyone else.
"The many priorities given to the military have hastened the decline of America's civilian economy and spread deindustrialization," Melman writes. "And ...