Policy

Resources for policy-making and citizenship

The market economy is essential to a free and flourishing society. It creates prosperity and wealth, drives innovation, and opens up opportunity. But it needs moral foundations which it itself cannot supply.

CEME offers resources to citizens and policy-makers who want to set economic choices in a broader ethical perspective, based on our rigorous research in enterprise markets and ethics.

Publications & Research

November 20, 2025 Publication

Markets and the Environment

By John Kroencke

Markets and the Environment shows how economics and 20th century policy history can inform our understanding of and response to contemporary environmental challenges.

June 27, 2023 Publication

Private Planning and the Great Estates

By John Kroencke

The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics (CEME) is pleased to announce the publication of: Private Planning and the Great Estates: Lessons from London A PDF copy can be found here. It is available in a web-friendly format (with...

April 1, 2021 Publication

Andrei Rogobete: The UK Savings Crisis

The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics (CEME) is pleased to announce the publication of The UK Savings Crisis: Rediscovering the Principle and Practice of Saving by Andrei Rogobete. A PDF copy can be found here. The publication can...

Blog Posts

February 4, 2026 Blog

AI and the Future of Higher Learning, Think Tanks and Universities

By Philip Booth

In his Nobel Prize lecture, Ronald Coase said: ‘a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would otherwise prevent’. Think of the retail sector, for example. Its sole function is...

December 1, 2025 Blog

Philip Booth: Back to Budget Basics

Back to Budget Basics Providing Christian commentary on the recent budget is not especially easy. There was a measure to remove the two-child cap on Universal Credit payments that was welcomed by many Christians. But the rest of the budget...

November 20, 2025 Blog

Philip Krinks: Ethics, Economics and the Environment

Environmental sustainability is a central challenge for humanity. In areas of the United Kingdom water has been rationed in two of the last four years, partly because we have not managed to build a major reservoir for over 30 years....

Events

November 14, 2025 Event

CEME Event: ‘Ethical Challenges in the Age of AI’ November 2025

The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics was pleased to hold an event on 13 November 2025 Ethical Challenges in the Age of AI The event was chaired by Andrei Rogobete. Our guest speakers were: Revd Dr Simon Cross Bishop of Oxford’s Office and the Church of England’s specialist on...

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April 4, 2025 Event

CEME Event: Inflation Is About More Than Money March 2025

Inflation Is About More Than Money: Economics, Politics and the Social Fabric On Wednesday 26 March, in conjunction with CCLA Investment Management, CEME hosted an event to launch the publication of a new book by CEME Senior Fellow Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (Brian). The event featured a talk on the book by Brian...

Book Reviews

January 26, 2026 Book Review

‘Goodbye Globalization’ by Elisabeth Braw

Review by Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn reviews a sharp, accessible and well-researched volume that argues that the globalization project that dominated from the fall of the Berlin Wall until roughly the mid-2010s is already dead and must be replaced with an alternative.

January 18, 2026 Book Review

‘The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’ by Martin Wolf

Review by Michael Munger

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism analyses the strains between democracy and capitalism, but Michael Munger argues the book's remedies hint at part of the problem.

November 17, 2025 Book Review

‘The Corporation and the Twentieth Century’ by Richard Langlois

Review by John Kroencke

Ambitious in scope and rigorous in analysis, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century is a magisterial account of the rise of the managerial corporation that deserves to be read widely.

Policy

Resources for policy-making and citizenship

Publications & Research

Markets and the Environment

Private Planning and the Great Estates

Andrei Rogobete: The UK Savings Crisis

Blog Posts

AI and the Future of Higher Learning, Think Tanks and Universities

Philip Booth: Back to Budget Basics

Philip Krinks: Ethics, Economics and the Environment

Events

CEME Event: ‘Ethical Challenges in the Age of AI’ November 2025

CEME Event: Inflation Is About More Than Money March 2025

Book Reviews

‘Goodbye Globalization’ by Elisabeth Braw

‘The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’ by Martin Wolf

‘The Corporation and the Twentieth Century’ by Richard Langlois

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