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April 22, 2025

Neil Jordan: (How) Does Artificial Intelligence Think? (What) Does it Know?

A recent article reports on work by researchers at Anthropic, the AI lab that developed a ‘reasoning’ AI model, and their ability to look into the digital brains of large language models. Investigating what happens in a neural network as an AI model ‘thinks’, they uncovered some unexpected complexity that would suggest that on some...

March 17, 2024

The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics (CEME)

We aim to bridge the interface of theology, economics and business in promoting an enterprise economy built on solid ethical foundations. CEME’s distinctive contribution comes from the promotion of the market economy that draws upon a Christian perspective within a framework of calling, integrity and ethical behaviour. Our approach combines academic work in business, […]

December 14, 2021

Brian Griffiths: A Celebration of Advent

The meaning of Advent I must first make a confession. I love carol services. I love singing carols. I love the Christmas tree. I love Christmas decorations. I love the festivities of Christmas. They remind me of when I was very young singing carols from house to house in Fforestfach which was then a...

December 7, 2021

John Kroencke: Long a political target, big business polls better than you might think

Despite criticising the actions of big business being a favourite pastime of many a business minister, John Kroencke writes that wider opinion of big business is actually more favourable than we might expect. Like many I rely on Amazon. In fact, there is rarely a week where a package doesn’t arrive on my doorstep. While...

November 27, 2021

Richard Turnbull: When it comes to business, the clergy and the flock see things very differently

Committed churchgoers – defined as those who attend weekly – have a considerably more positive view of business and the market economy than those who lead them and teach them. This is the result of polling conducted for the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics. Savanta ComRes polled six audiences between 10th May 2021 and...

July 15, 2021

Saving for a Property-Owning Democracy – Andrei Rogobete

Link to Full Text: Saving for a Property-Owning Democracy – Andrei E. Rogobete About the Author: Andrei E. Rogobete is Associate Director with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics. He is the author of several publications, including Ethics in Global Business: Building Moral Capitalism and The Challenges of Migration and The UK Savings […]

July 15, 2021

CEME Project: Why Saving Matters

Most people today who pay any attention to the news will be familiar with key economic concepts – consumption, investment, public expenditure, output, exports, imports, unemployment, economic growth, the balance of payments, public borrowing, interest rates, inflation, the national debt. Yet the one measure we hear little about is saving. Saving has become the Cinderella...

July 15, 2021

Richard Turnbull: The Local and Personal

Full Text Link: Local and Personal: The Principles and Practice of Saving in Victorian England – Revd Dr Richard Turnbull About the Publication: Richard Turnbull explores the principles and practices of saving in Victorian England, highlighting the significance of local financial institutions and their impact on society. About the Author: Richard Turnbull is...

July 15, 2021

Who Needs Barns? – Bishop Peter Selby

Link to Full Text: Who Needs Barns? – Bishop Peter Selby About the Author: Peter Selby was the Bishop of Worcester and Bishop to HM Prisons until his retirement in 2007, and was President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards from 2008 to 2013. He is the author of Grace and Mortgage:...

July 15, 2021

The Case for Normalised Interest Rates – Dr Peter Warburton

Link to Full Text: The Case for Normalised Interest Rates – Dr Peter Warburton About the Author: Peter Warburton has worked as an applied economist in the UK since 1975, starting out as a researcher at the London Business School. He gained his PhD from City University in 1987 and has worked as a...

May 24, 2021

Steve Morris: Lost gurus of the 80s – Jan Carlzon (Part 2: The Heart of Leadership)

Jan Carlzon, the dynamic architect of the rescue of Scandinavian Air Services in the 80s, had a good deal to say about what it is to be a leader. We would do well to listen because he counters some of the common misconceptions about leadership. One of those things is that the leader should...