Avram Noam Chomsky's Net Worth as of 2024
$5 Million

Noam Chomsky was born on the 7th December 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, of Ukrainian(father) and Belorussian(mother) ancestry. He is a philosopher, political activist, linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, historian, and logician, often described as “the father of modern linguistics”. Chomsky is probably best regarded for his work in analytic psychology, and is one of the founders of cognitive science. Noam also wrote more than 100 books and other publications on various topics, which helped him to increase his net worth.
Have you ever wondered how rich Noam Chomsky, is as of mid-2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Noam Chomsky’s net worth is as high as $5 million, with the main source of this amount of money being his successful careers in linguistics and philosophy. Also, Noam is a well-known anti-capitalist and is a creator of many related theories.

Noam Chomsky Net Worth $5 Million

Avram Noam Chomsky was born into a middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family, a son of William “Zev” Chomsky, the Congregation Mikveh Israel religious school principal, and Elsie Simonofsky, an activist and teacher. Noam went to the Oak Lane Country Day School, where he wrote his first article; it was about fascism following Franco’s reign in Spain. He moved to Central High School when he was 12, and started to get involved with anarchistic ideas. Chomsky then studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1955, graduating successively with a BA in 1949, an MA in 1951, and a PhD in 1955.
After finishing his studies, Chomsky was employed as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955. His work in linguistics was highly rated, and he had his first book – “Syntactic Structures” – published in 1957. From 1958 to 1959, Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was credited as the creator of the minimalist program, the generative grammar theory, the universal grammar theory, and the Chomsky hierarchy.
Chomsky was a prominent opponent of American involvement in the Vietnam War, and wrote an anti-war essay “The Responsibility of Intellectuals” in 1967, which attracted public attention and his activism also saw him arrested on several occasions. He was even put on President Richard Nixon’s Enemies List and had a significant role in the Linguistics War when he fell out with his former students and colleagues during the ’60s and ’70s. Chomsky always supported freedom of speech, and helped in opening public eyes about the Holocaust denial in the early ’80s. He retired as a professor, but remained an activist and spoke against the War on Terror while supporting the Occupy movement.
In 1988, Chomsky and Edward S. Herman published “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media”, an analysis of media propaganda and its power. Noam influenced many people in numerous fields, and he continued to contribute in the human sciences, and is still one of the greatest critics of US foreign policy, capitalism, mainstream mass media, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His ideas are essential to the movements such as anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist, and that’s why some people have accused him of being anti-American.
Most recently, Chomsky supported Senator Bernie Sanders for the upcoming 2016 US presidential election. At the beginning of 2016, he accused the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of supporting al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate – the Al-Nusra Front, and also condemned him for repressing the Kurds in Turkey. Chomsky latest work is a documentary called “Requiem for the American Dream.”
Regarding his personal life, Noam Chomsky was married to Carol Doris Schatz from 1949 to 2008, when she died; they had three children together. Chomsky married Valeria Wasserman in 2014. He always kept his personal life separated from his work and political activism. Although being born into a Jewish family, Chomsky is non-religious.