ABSTRACT
Man lives several different lives concurrently: family, community, political, spiritual, cultural, economic. All are mutually interpenetrating: the quality of family life impinges on the working day; low rewards in economic life undermine family life. However unattractive the idea in appearing to advance materialism, one particular life, the economic, penetrates all the others. This arises simply because, whatever the nature of the several lives, they require the use of economic resources in their fulfilment: even the contemplation of nature in the countryside requires time for the contemplation and perhaps money for the trip.
