{"id":5663,"date":"2023-08-22T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novamondo-dev.de\/hias\/?post_type=events&#038;p=5663"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:45:03","slug":"book-launch-citizen-knowledge-markets-experts-and-the-infrastructure-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/events\/book-launch-citizen-knowledge-markets-experts-and-the-infrastructure-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"HIAS reads#02: Citizen Knowledge \u2013 Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How much, and what, do you need to know to be a good citizen? When you choose between political parties as a voter, are you doing the same as when choosing between products in a supermarket? How does knowledge function in markets, how does it function in democratic political system, and what is the interaction between these two realms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s the deeper story behind such seemingly disparate phenomena as the influence of corporate money on academic research, the use of indicators inspired by market-prices in hospitals and other public institutions, and the claims by populists that \u201cpeople have had enough of experts\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oxford University Press wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/lisa-maria-herzog\/\">Lisa Herzog&#8217;s<\/a> latest book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Lisa Herzog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>explores the political dimensions of knowledge in democratic and capitalist societies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>argues for a &#8220;democratic institutionalist&#8221; approach to preserve democratic institutions and enable the coordination of knowledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>combines philosophical arguments with insights from political science, law, psychology, and history of ideas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>speaks to timely issues in the age of &#8220;fake news&#8221; and distrust of experts&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/citizen-knowledge-9780197681718?cc=de&amp;lang=en&amp;#\">(Oxford University Press)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this launch event Lisa Herzog will engage with comments and questions by colleagues from philosophy, political theory, and economics, and from the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ulrich G\u00e4hde<\/strong> &#8211; Professor emeritus of Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg as well as member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lisa Maria Herzog<\/strong> &#8211; Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Groningen and HIAS Fellow 2021\/2022*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Colin von Negenborn<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Fellow, \u201eMarkets and Moral(s)\u201d, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Peter Niesen<\/strong>, Professor of Political Theory, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussion will be moderated by<strong> Anna Hofmann<\/strong> \u2013 Director\/Head of&nbsp;Research and Scholarship, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/citizen-knowledge-9780197681718?cc=de&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Book<\/a> published by Oxford University Press, October 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5643,"template":"","event_type":[102],"class_list":["post-5663","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_type-book-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}