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October 31, 2025

Markets and the Environment (Introduction)

Introduction At the launch of the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics, our founding chairman Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach remarked that: [W]hile a market economy is superior to other economic systems which have been tried, it is far from flawless. Financial stability, environmental sustainability and inequality in income and wealth are three critical challenges to...

August 26, 2025

Benjy Morgan: ‘Covenant: A Theological Perspective for a Wider Audience’

Born in New York City and raised in the UK, Rabbi Benjy Morgan spent 14 years studying in the top Rabbinic training academies in the world. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Learning Exchange (JLE), a London-based organisation which aims to teach Judaism’s relevance and deeper meaning to 21st-century Jewish youth and […]

August 26, 2025

Maurice Glasman: ‘Covenant and Contract: Sovereignty, Politics and Economics’

Maurice, Baron Glasman is a political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer, best known as a founder of Blue Labour. He is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, Unherd, The Tablet and Spiked. We are […]

August 26, 2025

Danny Kruger: Covenant

Danny Kruger has been the Member of Parliament for East Wiltshire, previously Devizes, since 2019. He became David Cameron’s chief speechwriter in 2006, whilst Cameron was Leader of the Opposition. He left this role two years later to work full-time at a youth crime prevention charity that he had co-founded called Only Connect. For his […]

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August 14, 2025

Private Planning and the Great Estates (Conclusion)

What lessons are to be learnt from the great estates and their role in the development and redevelopment of London? The physical development of a city is not, as is often supposed, merely another aspect of its economic activity. Decisions on the use of land are absolutely fundamental to the way people live on it....

August 14, 2025

Chapter 3: The Rise of Public Planning

Parts 2 and 3 emphasised the historical role of private planning in the development and redevelopment of modern London, and argued that it had some of the benefits often claimed for regulated systems, such as responding dynamically to changing circumstances and solving externality problems. This chapter traces the role of the state in regulating the...

August 14, 2025

Chapter 2: Falling in and building up: adaptation and the leasehold system

London’s expansion was neither uniform nor managed: London was expanding in the 1870s hand over fist, or rather in fits and starts. How was all that growth managed? Of planning in the modern sense of the word there was none to speak of, either physical or economic. London was still strictly laissez-faire; it had no...

August 14, 2025

Private Planning and the Great Estates (Introduction)

We can learn much from urban history. Perhaps more interesting than the record of any particular time period are the dynamics of the system: how cities respond to changes in markets, technology and social forces. In the last 70 years, parts of London have changed greatly. The skyline, once dominated by St Paul’s,...

August 14, 2025

Chapter 1: Basics of Leasehold Development and Planning on the Great Estates

From the seventeenth century onward countless town planners (who would never have called themselves that) were engaged in imposing rationally conceived patterns of growth and development on London. For the most part they were not associated with any political body but were connected with one or another of the ground landlords or building speculators who...

June 13, 2025

Interviews

Conversations with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics Perspectives on contemporary issues 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...

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...