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November 5, 2025 Blog

Philip Krinks: Working People

You may work, but are you a working person? This might just sound like an annoying exam question: probably one from the exams once sat by CEME’s philosophers and theologians, rather than by our economists. In fact it now appears to be crucial. It could determine your, and Britain’s, prosperity. Enter ‘Working People’ Back in...

October 27, 2025 Blog

Neil Jordan: The Council Tax Premium: Possible Indications

In March this year, I raised the question of whether the council tax premium on second homes constituted a solution to difficult problems – namely shortages of housing in some areas and straitened local authority finances – or was in effect a sumptuary law of sorts. The Moral Issue An important question was whether there...

October 15, 2025 Blog

Brian Griffiths: Margaret Thatcher – A Life & Legacy: Mrs Thatcher’s Economic Policy

Talk given at the Danube Institute’s Conference, Budapest, 2nd October 2025. Brian also gave an interview about related topics. Mrs Thatcher became Prime Minister in May 1979 at a time when the UK economy was suffering from ‘the British disease’ and known as ‘the sick man of Europe’. We had just emerged from the ‘Winter of Discontent’, during...

September 22, 2025 Blog

Jennifer Tosti-Kharas and Christopher Wong Michaelson: Work as a Calling: Religious and Secular Approaches

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...

August 11, 2025 Blog

Philip Booth: God and Government

This is a repost of a consideration of religious principles in political life by CEME Fellow, Professor Philip Booth, first published on the Catholic Social Teaching blog of St Mary’s University The idea that government should be based on Christian principles is continually under attack – not least on several occasions in the assisted suicide debate. Not...

July 29, 2025 Blog

Conversation with Andrew Haldane

In this discussion with CEME Senior Research Fellow John Kroencke, Andrew Haldane discusses his view that economic growth is a failed lodestar for policy, presents the case for increasing opportunity for those at a disadvantage, and considers the problems with British public finance. This is the first entry in our Conversations with CEME Series which...

July 16, 2025 Blog

Neil Jordan – The AI Job Interview

It has been reported that Ribbon AI, a Canadian company, is offering employers a new form of screening interview conducted by artificial intelligence. With a view to helping organisations hire staff more quickly and job-seekers find work sooner by cutting out ‘dead time’ in the recruitment process, early stage job interviews are conducted in a...

June 30, 2025 Blog

Paul Mueller: Central Banks and Inflation

My colleague, Dr. Dave Hebert, wrote a nice overview of different types of inflation and how they can affect people. He pointed out that the rate of inflation can be high or low as well as anticipated or unanticipated. He also explained how inflation is fundamentally a monetary phenomenon: too much money chasing too few...

June 23, 2025 Blog

David Hebert – Deflating the Myths Surrounding Inflation

Subscribe to the CEME Substack Inflation is a topic that plenty of pundits and talking heads have brought up on the news. For the non-economists, it might seem as if they do so ad nauseum. Despite its frequent coverage, however, few people understand why the U.K., like much of the rest of the world...

June 2, 2025 Blog

Neil Jordan: War and Peace – and Artificial Intelligence

A fascinating advance currently underway in the field of artificial intelligence is the development of models to assist with peace negotiations. In collaboration with the White House, a think tank in Washington has been developing a simulator that generates potential peace-agreements to end the war in Ukraine, and also scores the likelihood of each deal being...