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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Is the Non-Executive Director Worth Saving? (1/5)

PDF Introduction Is the non-executive director (NED) an endangered species? Does it matter? Neither corporate collapse nor corporate scandal are new. They rightly attract media scrutiny and the interest of policymakers and regulators. Illustrative examples include Thomas Cook (2019), Carillion (2018), Patisserie Valerie (2018), Northern Rock (2007) and, earlier, Barings (...)

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Brian Griffiths: A Celebration of Advent

By Brian Griffiths

  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 (...)

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

By John Kroencke

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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. (...)

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 (...)