Our depleted society / [by] Seymour Melman.

Appendices include: A. George McGovern, new perspectives on American society -- B. The structure of alternative security policies and budgets -- C. The 100 largest military industrial contractors ; the 500 largest military research contractors: Firms and universities, 1963 -- D. Morris Forgash, a bank for economic acceleration of backward countries.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366).

1. Behind the mask of success -- 2. Overkill: The drain on America -- 3. Profits without productivity -- 4. Cold-War science and technology -- 5. Firms without enterprise -- 6. The high cost of discarding people -- 7. Selling sovereignty to save the dollar -- 8. Depletion for export -- 9. The depleted society: public life without law, private life without purpose, the politics of depletion -- 10. Beyond authorization: New markets, new jobs for Americans -- 11, Reconstruction without bureaucracy -- 12. Dismantling the Cold War industrial machine -- 13. Useful work for all -- 14. Our strike in world development -- 15. The productive society in motion --

Our depleted society urges conversion from arms to peace time production, emphasizing the need to shift our manufacturing away from the military industrial complex, weapons, and arms manufacturing, This book discusses the loss resulting from overdevelopment in the above areas, including the affect in has on current and upcoming generations. It addition to the emphasis it places on the effects of people in the United States, it also looks at how this type of production affects other countries, It considers how thos overproduction affects us socially and economically.