Adam Smith boils down business to the axiom of natural price: the maintenance of the person and the recompence of the risque he runs. Not exclusively, but Security Ethics: Commerce and Crime in a Polycentric World is about the vivid end of that risk, the literal end. All business concerns managing risk, but what are the peculiar moral burdens and requirements of risk management in volatile criminal and political conditions? Kaplan believes that we are headed for a period of “comparative anarchy,” when business will be forced to operate in spaces and times where unified government is only fitfully present.