Lisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy and Theory at the Hochschule fur Politik of the Technical University of Munich. She works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic and social issues, focussing on the history of political and economic ideas, normative questions around markets, business ethics, and ethics in organisations. Her publications include Inventing the Market. Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory (OUP, 2013), and Just Financial Markets? Finance in a Just Society (editor, OUP, 2017).

"In her excellent treatise, Lisa Herzog argues for a comprehensive and original conception of an ethics of and within institutions. A much-needed, methodologically innovative contribution to a topic we need to think more about if we want to understand the complexities of our social life." -Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt

"Lisa Herzog's work reflects a closer engagement with empirical literature on human behaviour and organizational theory than is found in any other leading ethical theory. Moreover, the integration she proposes is original, her discussions are rich and subtle, and her policy discussion is highly nuanced . . . this is an important work that makes a real contribution to our understanding of the ethical dimensions of organizations." -Debra Satz, Stanford University

"This groundbreaking study is the rare case of a work of philosophy, in which central claims are developed by drawing directly on either own empirical material or relevant empirical scholarship. With the courage to synthesize far-ranging topics, using a high degree of sociological imagination, and with analytically trained argumentative skills,Lisa Herzog opens up an unjustly neglected area of moral or social philosophy." -Axel Honneth, Columbia University