Lisa Herzog

Lisa Maria Herzog (born 17 December 1983) is a German philosopher and social scientist who works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic thought. On 1 October 2019 she began a professorship in philosophy at the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In 2021, Herzog and Konrad Gilges were awarded the .

In 2025 Herzog was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works Inventing the Market. Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013. Hegel's Thought in Europe: Currents, Crosscurrents, Countercurrents. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmill/Basingstoke 2013. Markets. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2013. Intersubjektive Sanktionen als normative Gründe. In: Eva Buddeberg & Achim Vesper (Hrsg.): Moral und Sanktion. Eine Kontroverse über die Autorität moralischer Normen. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 2013. Freiheit gehört nicht nur den Reichen. Plädoyer für einen zeitgemäßen Liberalismus. Beck, München 2014, ; BpB, Bonn 2014. Der Wert des Marktes. Ein ökonomisch-philosophischer Diskurs vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. (with Axel Honneth) Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2014. Reclaiming the System. Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018. Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy. Oxford Academic Press, New York, 2023, The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals. Harvard University Press, 2025