Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A (the?) major factor of economic decline

"Industrial productivity, the foundation of every nation’s economic growth, is eroded by the relentlessly predatory effects of the military economy. …Traditional economic competence of every sort is being eroded by the state capitalist directorate that elevates inefficiency into a national purpose, that disables the market system, that destroys the value of the currency, and that diminishes the decision power of all institutions other than its own."
Seymour Melman (1917–2004), professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University
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