The Price of the Common Good : Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy / Mark Hoipkemier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoipkemier, Mark Francis, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Common good.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame, [2025]

Summary:

The Price of the Common Good offers a fresh perspective on economic prosperity and solidarity that emphasizes communal interests. 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. To get a purchase on the full moral architecture of markets and firms, Mark Hoipkemier recovers the classical idiom of the "common good" for today's economy. Hoipkemier argues not that economic institutions should ideally embody communal purposes, but that they already do. Engaging with leading political economists, he shows the centrality of common goods in real-world institutions with examples such as Uber, corporate law, and globalized auto manufacturing. The Price of the Common Good offers both the defenders and critics of the market a richer way of deliberating about shared concerns in markets and firms as they are and as they should be.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Merchant versus Citizen

Part 1. DOING BUSINESS

ONE No Profit without Honor

TWO How to Think about Common Goods

THREE Work Together

FOUR The Uber Problem

Part 2. ON THE MARKET

FIVE The End of the Invisible Hand

SIX Forum and Emporium

SEVEN On Social Contracts

Conclusion: Toward a Pluralist Political Economy

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780268208998

0268208999

9780268209001

0268209006