"Social conscience

"Driven by profit seeking and emphasizing shareholder value as the primary objective of business, the market economy undermines traditional values of caring and sharing. The author uses the family as a model social structure to explore these values in the context of a caring society. He does not engage in matters of religious doctrine, but aims to reconcile divergences of credo that range from atheism to fundamentalism and agnosticism to humanism. By identifying family values as those that explain, sustain and justify a caring society, he reaches out to fundamental nature and to that which is common to all beliefs."--Jacket.