Edward S. Herman
Economist and media scholar
Edward S. Herman was an American economist and media scholar. He co-wrote Manufacturing Consent with Noam Chomsky.
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American Born 1925 in Philadelphia, United States Died 2017
About Edward S. Herman
Edward S. Herman was born in Philadelphia in 1925 and died in 2017. He held emeritus professor status in finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and he also taught at its Annenberg School for Communication. He earned a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1953. Herman wrote widely on economics, political economy and the media, and he often worked with Noam Chomsky. Together they developed the propaganda model, a hypothesis in media criticism, and wrote Manufacturing Consent.