“The Price of the Common Good: Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy” 

Dr. Mark Hoipkemier

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

6:30-7:30PM

Aquinas Auditorium

Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Mark Hoipkemier, Assistant Professor of Research, Mendoza Business School, The University of Notre Dame

There is more at stake in market economies than self-interest or making money. Lying just below the surface, there are shared projects answering the deepest political questions of how we live together and who we become. The Price of the Common Good exposes the inadequacies of the prevailing individualistic vision of markets and firms and develops an incisive new framework for analyzing the shared goods that are always in play. (excerpted from the book’s introduction)

Mark Hoipkemier is a Bradley Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His work deepens the humanistic understanding of political economy by applying Aristotelian concepts to contemporary institutions. His current book project, entitled The Political Economy of Common Goods, shows that the idea of common good remains indispensable for market democracies, because common goods are built into social reality. When persons act together in communities, in corporations, or even to institute markets, they generate common ends that cannot be justly neglected or reduced to individual shares. The question of “Who shall we become?” is always at stake in deliberation on economic matters, which can never be reduced to efficiency alone. Mark’s writing has appeared in the Review of Politics,Polity, Political Studies, Archivo di Filosofia, Journal of Critical Realism, and Interpretation. Mark received his BA from Dartmouth College and his PhD from the University of Notre Dame.

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