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Triumph of the Market
Essays on Economics, Politics, and the Media
Edward S. Herman
Pages: 290ISBN: 0-89608-521-X
Format: paper only
Release Date: 1995-01-01
The triumph of the market in the post-Cold War era means further commodification of culture; atrophying of political debate and political options; greater subservience of the media to state and corporate interests; and global polarization of income, wealth, and power.
“[N]ot since CLR James has a progressive writer managed to be authoritative and ‘comfortable’ with national issues of culture, race, and pseudo-science, economics and politics, as with the international machinations of finance capital and the new imperial order.”—Samori Marksman, WBAI Radio
“Herman writes in the tradition of … Thorsten Veblen and George Orwell, with an ironic outlook and a wit that makes his essays not only illuminating but pleasurable, surprising, shocking, and vital to know. Herman deserves a Medal of Honor.”—Monthly Review
Edward S. Herman
Click here to view Edward S. Herman's full Author PageEdward S. Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to Z Magazine since its founding in 1988. Herman is the author of numerous books, including a number of corporate and media studies. These include Corporate Control, Corporate Power (1981), the two-volume Political Economy of Human Rights (1979) and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988, 2002), both of which he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, as well as The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror (1989), which he co-authored with Gerry O'Sullivan, and The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader (Peter Lang, 1999).