30 June 2025 We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers will find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, pensions and savings, state intervention in markets, and housing: Another Review CEME’s latest publication, Inflation is About More Than Money, by Brian Griffiths, is on […]
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 […]
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, […]
Inflation Is About More Than Money by our Founding Chairman and Senior Research Fellow Brian Griffiths has been named as a Best Book of Summer 2025 by the Financial Times in the economics category compiled by Martin Wolf. The full list is available here. Full details about the book are available here.
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, utilities, defence spending, public finances and the cost of borrowing, virtue and commercial success, pensions and the environment: Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence shows great potential for transforming businesses […]
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 […]
In this instalment, there are stories relating to health and the welfare bill, utilities, the value of work, insurance markets, monetary policy, tariffs and trade, artificial intelligence and the environment, as well as a review of our latest book Health and Productivity Faced with a an increasing benefits bill, driven in part by long […]
This is a repost of an appreciation of Pope Francis by CEME Fellow, Professor Philip Booth, first published on the Catholic Social Teaching blog of St Mary’s University. We thought it would be of interest to CEME readers, but reposting does not mean endorsement of every point. In the coverage of the passing of Pope Francis […]
Sign up for our Substack We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this installment, there are stories relating to carbon markets, housing, the use (or not) of cash, the need for economic growth in the UK, and on the capacity of artificial intelligence to […]
Brian Griffiths advocates pragmatic monetarism as both economic necessity and moral imperative. Drawing on his experience with Thatcher and the Bank of England, he argues that unchecked inflation breeds social distrust, fragments communities, and hits the poorest hardest—making the case for fiscal discipline and sound money as foundations of a stable society.
This paper is part of a series of essays that seek to explore the current and prospective impact of AI on business. A PDF version can be accessed here. The previous paper in this series looked at the impact of AI on work through the lens of Peter Drucker’s concept of the ‘Knowledge Worker’. […]
