He is the author of Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America and Scenes from a Corporate Makeover: Columbia / HCA and Heathcare Fraud, 1992 - 2001. (kenan.ethics.duke.edu)
The mark of corruption, Rousseau thought, was when virtue was «rated at a market price,» and this together with other developments associated with commercial society were the «causes of opulence and of poverty, of public interest, of mutual hatred among citizens, of indifference to the common cause, of the corruption of the people, and of the weakening of all the springs of government.» (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)