Seymour Melman and the Military State

Seymour Melman was an interesting guy I actually wrote a paper on him that was published a long time ago back when we still had the Journal of Libertarian Studies. He was interested in the idea of opportunity cost when it came to the military state and again this has been so many years but I somehow got into contact with people who were like scholars who were kind of carrying on the work of Melman. So can you say something about exactly how in a way it's like a crowding out effect or a scene an unseen effect of what let's say an oversized military state does?