Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics

Welcome to the CEME

Our purpose is to bridge the interface of theology, economics and business in promoting an enterprise economy built on solid ethical foundations.

CEME’s distinctive contribution comes from the promotion of the market economy from a Christian perspective within a framework of calling, integrity and ethical behaviour.

Richard Godden: “Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility”, Nicholas Burton and Richard Turnbull (Editors)

Many books about business management or corporate responsibility use historical situations to illustrate or, at least to the satisfaction of their authors, prove their theories. Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility adopts the opposite approach: it examines a particular historical model of business management and corporate responsibility (that of the Quakers) and seeks to draw conclusions […]

Lord Griffiths: “Prosperity: better business makes the greater good” by Prof. Colin Mayer

Colin Mayer is a distinguished professor at the University of Oxford, former dean of the Said Business School and a Fellow of the British Academy . Throughout his career one of his fields of interests has been the business corporation and at present he is director of the Academy’s research programme into the Future of […]

Steve Morris: Can you be a Christian and be competitive?

This article was first published by Christian Today on 18 September 2019. It is a good question and thankfully it is one that Edward Carter has been wrestling with. I’m just back from a talk he gave to launch his book God and Competition and I’m buzzing with ideas and questions. For me in particular it is […]

Richard Turnbull: Vibrant Capital

A great title from Grant Thornton. Several hundred people came together to celebrate the vibrancy of London and its economy and to look to the future. The CEO of Grant Thornton, Sacha Romanovitch, introduced the occasion reminding us of the central place the London occupies in the world economy, yet also the challenge of achieving […]

Edward Carter: God and Competition

The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics (CEME) is pleased to announce the publication of God and Competition – Towards a Positive Theology of Competitive Behaviour by Edward Carter. The publication can be purchased here, a preview can be found here. Alternatively, please contact CEME’s offices via email at: office@theceme.org […]

Richard Turnbull: Work as Enterprise

The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics (CEME) is pleased to announce the publication of Work as Enterprise: Recovering a Theology of Work by Richard Turnbull. The publication can be purchased here, a preview can be found here. Alternatively, please contact CEME’s offices via email at: office@theceme.org […]

Lord Griffiths Book Review: Prosperity – better business makes the greater good

CEME Event: God & Competition

New Publication: God & Competition

New Publication: Work as Enterprise