We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to employment and inflation, artificial intelligence, taxation and carbon trading schemes: Why British workers keep getting pay rises despite weak hiring (Financial Times) Young hotel workers in Glasgow have negotiated a […]
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 […]
The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics is pleased to announce the appointment of Revd Dr Philip Krinks as its new Director with effect from 6 October 2025. Richard Turnbull, who served as Director until April 2025, will remain with the Centre as Director Emeritus. CEME Chairman Richard Godden said: […]
We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to free markets and patriotism, pharmaceuticals and markets, pay growth, consumer spending, public attitudes towards capitalism and free enterprise, the environment, and artificial intelligence and the stock market: America’s new ‘patriotic’ […]
The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Philip Booth as Academic Advisor and Senior Research Fellow. He was previously an Associate Fellow. As part of his new role, he will be working for CEME one day a week. Philip Booth is professor of Catholic Social Thought and […]
We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, free trade, economic growth, employment, post-disaster reconstruction and the environment: A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building (The Economist) While the Trump administration has withdrawn subsidies from […]
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 […]
We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, free trade and the environment: Artificial Intelligence Robot bricklayers that can work round the clock coming to Britain (The Telegraph) Following success in the Netherlands, robot bricklayers will be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
