“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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“Whose safety and happiness?: Majority rule and the protection of rights”

Dr. Yuval Levin

Thursday, November 20, 2025

5:00-6:30PM

Location: TBD

Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Yuval Levin, Senior Fellow; Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy; Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Editor in Chief, National Affairs 

Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at New York Times.

At AEI, Dr. Levin and scholars in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies research division study the foundations of self-government and the future of law, regulation, and constitutionalism. They also explore the state of American social, political, and civic life, focusing on the preconditions necessary for family, community, and country to flourish.

Dr. Levin served as a member of the White House domestic policy staff under President George W. Bush. He was also executive director of the President’s Council on Bioethics and a congressional staffer at the member, committee, and leadership levels.

In addition to being interviewed frequently on radio and television, Dr. Levin has published essays and articles in numerous publications, including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Commentary. He is the author of several books on political theory and public policy, most recently American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation – and Could Again (Basic Books, 2024).

He holds an MA and PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.