Seymour Melman is chair of the National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament. Melman discusses ways to convert military spending to peace-time uses as well as how the import of foreign goods is a form of "subsidy" to the American economy and to its consumption. A WORLD OF IDEAS with Bill Moyers aired in 1988 and 1990. The half-hour episodes featured scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, historians -- some well-known, many never before seen on television.
