Edward S. Herman

Edward S. Herman (April 7, 1925, USA) is an American economist and media analyst, specializing in the corporations they form and how they are regulated, as well as their relationships with economic policies. He is professor emeritus of economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945 and a Ph.D. in 1953 at the University of California, Berkeley.

One of his best-known books, written with Noam Chomsky, is Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which deals with the consensus made by the media of communication in democratic societies.

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