"If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent." -- Edward S. Herman
Edward S. Herman (born 7 April 1925) is an economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Arts from University of Pennsylvania in 1945 and PhD in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley.
One of his best-known books is Manufacturing Consent, written with Noam Chomsky. More recently, in his and David Peterson's 2010 book, "The Politics of Genocide," Herman argues that some genocides such as Kosovo and Rwanda in 1994 have been exaggerated or misconstrued in the West to advance a specific economic agenda, eventually leading to a minority controlled government of pro-Western and pro-business Tuti, while other genocides, such as East Timor, have been largely ignored for the same reason.
Edward S. Herman has published articles, such as "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre" [1], where he criticized the validity of the term genocide in the case of Srebrenica massacre, pointing out inconsistencies for the case of organized extermination such as Bosnian Serb army busing of Muslim woman and children out of Srebrenica. This position was criticized by Marko Attila Hoare and John Feffer.
He is also criticized for denying the Rwandan Genocide and the plot to exterminate the Tutsis of Rwanda.
1979: The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Noam Chomsky)
1979: The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume II: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (with Noam Chomsky)
1981: Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study
1982: The Real Terror Network
1984: Demonstration Elections (with Frank Brodhead)
1986: The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection (with Frank Brodhead). ISBN 0-940380-06-4.
1988: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Noam Chomsky)
1990: The "Terrorism" Industry ISBN 978-0679725596
1992: Beyond hypocrisy : decoding the news in an age of propaganda : including A doublespeak dictionary for the 1990s ISBN 0896084361
1995: Triumph of the Market
1997: The Global Media (with Robert McChesney) ISBN 0304334332
1999: The Myth of The Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader
2010: The Politics of Genocide (with David Peterson) ISBN 978-1-58367-212-9
Prominent articles and essays
Godfatherly Global Justice: Milosevic, Sharon and Suharto - Znet - 4 July 2001
Propaganda Model
The Propaganda Model Revisited - Monthly Review - July, 1996
The Propaganda Model: A Retrospective - December 2003