Overview of the Beautiful Enterprise Framework
By Tim Thorlby
2 mins
This blog provides an overview of the blogs I have written to date and shows how, together, they describe a fresh approach to enterprise and economics - the beautiful enterprise framework.
1 – An overview of beautiful enterprise
Over the last few years, and drawing on inspiration from many others, I have developed a simple framework of six principles for how the UK might build an economy which is fairer, more dignified and more sustainable. We need more beautiful enterprises.
The framework is summarised here:
2 – Exploring the framework
Each of the blogs I have written to date explores one aspect of this framework. Each is inspired in some way by biblical principles, applied to UK enterprise and economics today. I’ve summarised the blogs below and how they relate to each of the six principles. The blogs are hyperlinked to make it easy to find them.
Principle 1: People - Dignified work (people are more than economic units)
Blog: Always on? The right to disconnect
Principle 2: Pay – Fair pay at all levels (fair pay underpins appropriate rewards and incentives)
Blog: The Living Wage: Making ‘poverty pay’ history
Blog: Who ate all the pie? Executive pay, effort & luck
Principle 3: Place – Rooted and prospering communities (healthy places matter for strong communities)
Blog: Trickle-up Economics: How to create wealth
Principle 4: Planet – A bio-diverse and sustainable environment (a flourishing environment is essential for society)
Blog: Farm to Fork: How food costs the earth
Principle 5: Power – Preventing the concentration of economic power (economic power should be decentralised)
Blog: We need to talk about rentier capitalism (why work doesn’t pay)
Blog: AirBnB: When sharing isn’t caring
Principle 6: Public Sphere – Fair tax (a healthy public sphere is essential to a prosperous marketplace)
Blog: Taxation: What is says about us
Overview
Blog: Memo to the PM: Time for a bold biblical vision for the UK economy
3 – Future blogs…
Future blogs will continue to explore different ways in which enterprise and economics can be re-thought to deliver fairer, more dignified and more sustainable outcomes for all of us.
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