The past 200 years have seen a huge increase in aggregate global wealth, which has benefited the vast majority of people around the world. Conservative estimates suggest that average real wages have increased ten-fold and the increase in wealth has probably been considerably greater than this (perhaps thirty-fold or even a hundred-fold). Why has this […]
The Centre for Enterprise, Markets, and Ethics (CEME) was pleased to co-host an event on the 22nd November 2018 entitled “The Future of Capitalism – Making Capitalism Work for Everyone“, held at CCLA Investment Management (London). Speakers included, among others, Sacha Romanovitch (CEO, Grant Thornton) & Jonathan Davidson (Director, FCA). Picture Gallery: […]
The Centre for Enterprise, Markets & Ethics (CEME) was delighted to co-host an event with CCLA Investment Management on “The Future of Work – Promoting Good Work for the Benefit of All.” The event took place on the 22nd October 2018. Picture Gallery:
Rethinking Poverty by Barry Knight is an explorative study on the current deficiencies of modern western society and the restructuring that needs to take place for the ultimate goal of poverty reduction and indeed, poverty elimination. This may come across as overly ambitious and idealistic to some readers, but the aim of poverty elimination […]
Theology Reforming Society – Revisiting Anglican Social Theology arose out of a 24-hour conference held at Mirfield (a monastic community where Anglican ministers are also trained) in January 2017, on Anglican Social Theology. The various contributors were admirably swift in shaping and adapting their papers into a publishable form, and, for those who had not […]
Kenneth Barnes currently holds the Chair in Work Place Theology and Business Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. As might be expected, therefore, Redeeming Capitalism is about the theology and ethics of business. Its basic argument is simple: the capitalist economic system that now exists is not the same as that which has existed in the […]
God and the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Scarcity was written in 2005, its central question is timeless. Why would an omnipotent and benevolent God permit evil? Theologians and philosophers have long struggled to explain why God would permit the suffering of innocents or natural disasters. Most conclude that God permits evil so […]
Frank Prochaska describes Christianity & Social Service in Modern Britain as “an interpretative study, which seeks to contribute to the history of social service, religious decline, and democratic traditions” (page (vii)). There is no doubt that, between the late Victorian years and the twenty-First century, the voluntary provision of social services in the UK […]
The Centre for Enterprise, Markets & Ethics (CEME) was delighted to host roundtable discussion on the topic of “Offshore Financial Centres: Tax Havens or Capital Efficiency?”. Our distinguished speakers were Barbara Ridpath, Director of St. Paul’s Institute and Prof. Philip Booth, Director of Research at St. Mary’s University. The event took place on the […]
The great contribution of this book, edited by Alex Nicolls, now a Professor at the Said Business School in Oxford, is that it brings together in one place, and for the first time, the exciting stories of social entrepreneurship, analysis of issues and the academic research agenda. In doing so, the book is well-placed to […]
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 […]
