Mark Hoipkemier

Mark Hoipkemier is an Assistant Research Professor in the Business Ethics and Society Program. He is a political theorist with strong interests in economics and philosophy, so one could say his “natural” field is Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE). Before coming back to Notre Dame in summer 2025, he served as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and assistant professor of PPE at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). Mark's main research focuses on the notion of the common good, and the sociologically-attuned ethics (or ethically-attuned social theory) that are needed to make that notion clear and useful. His first book, The Price of the Common Good: Corporations, Markets, and Political Economy, uses the lens of common goods to re-envision the moral architecture of the market and the business firm, and their relation to politics and human flourishing.

His research articles and other writing have appeared in Journal of Business Ethics, Review of Politics, Polity, Political Studies, The Hedgehog Review, Political Science Reviewer, and elsewhere.