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: The Dignity of Work

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: The Road to Skegness Pier: Levelling Up is failing - our forgotten places need Upside Down Economics

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

Blog: The price of bread

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

Blog: The Unfinished Jubilee

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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