Michael Novak, American Enter- prise Institute, twice the U.S. Ambassador for UN Human Rights Commission; winner of the Templeton Prize (always larger than the Nobel Prize)

The big issues that we face as a global people are touched on by these basic principles about value and value creation. These are the concepts for discussions around the dinner table.

Though these study guides were first prepared for the PBS feed into our business schools and universities throughout the USA, today these studies (and their corresponding video) are being integrated as chapter endings for the best-selling college textbooks used in business classrooms literally around the world.

A case study is never complete. Within this website each point eventually becomes an interactive question and you may opt to contribute to it. Your insights, your point of view, can actually change the way we understand and act on what has been said. Each of us can constantly deepen our understanding of historical moments. It doesn't change the history but it does change us.

Three Case Study Guides are emerging from this episode of the show. We hope we can continue this development with all subsequent episodes:

1. Junior & Senior High School: Democratic Capitalism for the Classroom. We are working with some faculty members at Texas Tech University on some curriculum development. We welcome the help of others.

2. College & university courses: These guides are published as a case study in many college textbooks published by Thomson Learning.

3. At Work: We take many of these points and link them to a study of their first principles (the highest level of meaning that has an inclusive generality) and then apply that understanding to an action plan whereby all small businesses can begin actively participating and acting to solve the most pressing needs within our local as well as our global communities.

We anticipate such actions will also be good business in every sense of the word.