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If machines do the work and the state pays the wage, what becomes of our dignity?

The UK faces compounding fiscal pressures: a swelling adult social care budget, rising debt-servicing costs, and a persistent temptation to raise revenue in ways that erode the very economic activity on which public spending ultimately depends. How should the tax system be reformed to encourage enterprise rather than discourage it?

Entrepreneurship is a distinct vocation, requiring virtues rarely articulated in management literature. Drawing on economic analysis of radical uncertainty alongside Catholic social teaching from Pius XII to Francis, Philip Booth sets out the virtues demanded of the entrepreneur — and argues that they extend well beyond business, to civil society and the life of the Church.

Philip Booth will describe how government debt is creating a looming economic and social crisis. This is especially so when we also consider demographic developments in western and in Asian countries.

Is competition merely a necessary evil to be restrained? Drawing on Trinitarian theology and the doctrine of stewardship, this blog argues that rightly ordered competition is essential to human flourishing.

Philip Booth uses the Parable of the Prodigal Son to distinguish social justice from distributive justice in Catholic social teaching, and explain the common good.

Fr. Francisco Mota S.J. on why business leadership is a true vocation—and why good goods, good work, and good wealth demand more than advocacy alone.

The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics was pleased to hold an event on 13 November 2025   Ethical Challenges in the Age of AI       The event was chaired by Andrei Rogobete.   Our guest speakers were: Revd Dr Simon Cross Bishop of Oxford’s Office and the Church of England’s specialist on AI and tech within the Faith and Public Life Team   Sebastian Plötzeneder Tech Entrepreneur     Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025 Time: 3:00-4:30pm followed by drinks reception Venue: CCLA Investment Management, One Angel Lane,…

How We Found Our Callings While all definitions of calling share in common the notion that work becomes meaningful within a person’s life, they differ on whether the source of the calling is internal, based on one’s own values, needs, and preferences, or external, based on either a calling from a higher power, a ‘transcendent summons,’ or a sense of fulfilling one’s destiny. Our own academic work together – which began with research on how the work of 9/11 victims was seen in the eyes of their close relations, and which has…

Introduction to the Fforestfach Colloquia Series There are growing concerns that capitalism and democracy are in crisis. Despite the success of free markets in creating global prosperity over two centuries, the recent slowdown in growth in Western economies, the persistence of inflation, increasing economic inequality, financial instability and the explosion in debt have called into question the value of market capitalism. Moreover, trust has been eroded in liberal democracies because of dysfunctional governments, a perceived lack of commitment to truth and political leaders playing the game to the edge of…

On Monday 14 July, CEME held an event with guest speaker Dylan Pahman (Acton Institute). Organised in partnership with Blackfriars Hall, Pahman spoke on his forthcoming book The Kingdom of God and the Common Good. The event was chaired by Andrei Rogobete.   Speaker Bio: Dylan Pahman is a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty, where he serves as executive editor of the Journal of Markets & Morality. Dylan recently completed his PhD from St. Mary’s University, Twickenham on the basis of his…