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- 11) The main question of Florian Wettstein's paper is: a) Why would a business speak out against human rights violation? b) What should business do to prevent human rights violation? c) What are the different ways in which once can be complicit? e) Under what conditions is a business silently complicit in human rights violations?e) Under what conditions is a business silently complicit in human rights violations?
- 22) Silent complicity is: a) Failing to fulfill a positive duty to help protect others b) Failing to fulfill a negative duty to avoid harming others c) Failing to fulfill a passive duty to avoid harming others d) Failing to realize that you have a duty to protect others e) Failing to realize that you are actively harming othersa) Failing to fulfill a positive duty to help protect others
- 33) Wettstein says that we all have a passive negative duty to do no harm, as long as one condition has been met, which is: a) Connection b) Legitimization c) Voluntariness d) Silence e) Influencec) Voluntariness
- 44) A company that has the power or influence to improve the situation of victims therefore has: a) A positive duty b) A passive duty c) A negative duty d) Beneficial complicity e) Active complicitya) A positive duty
- 55) The legitimization requirement means: a) The company has verified that there is a legitimate human rights violation b) The company's silence is taken as an endorsement of the human rights violation c) The company is legally and morally allowed to do business in a country d) The company's protests against the violation legitimize its presence in the country e) The company has a reputation for being honest and legitimateb) The company's silence is taken as an endorsement of the human rights violation
- 66) In the case of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Wettstein believes that Shell: a) Had enough influence to stop Saro-Wiwa's execution b) Was silently complicit in Saro-Wiwa's execution c) Was actively complicit in Saro-Wiwa's execution d) Both a) and b) e) Both A) and c)d) Both a) and b)
- 77) According to John Boatright, opportunism, or shirking, occurs as a result of what? a) The tendency of agents to seek their own interests b) A close relationship between management and agent c) A close relationship between agent and investor d) High amounts of projected risk e) All of the abovea) The tendency of agents to seek their own interests
- 88) The Ontario Securities Commission's mandate is summed up in its phrase a) "Safety and value since 1932" b) "Greed is good" c) "Fair and efficient" capital markets d) "Keepin' it real" e) "Defy the conventional"c) "Fair and efficient" capital markets
- 99) Boatright does NOT mention this as a factor that produces unfair market conditions. a) Gender disparity b) Information asymmetry c) Unequal bargaining power d) Resource inequality e) Processing ability advantagesa) Gender disparity
- 1010) In the 1990s, quantitative analysts used mathematical formulas to price derivatives and predict the market. According to Ferguson, why didn't these formulas help them avoid the crisis of 2008? a) The formulas were overly complex and hard to use b) Computers were not powerful enough in the 1990s c) The markets are affected by human emotion, which is hard to calculate d) The markets change over time, and the formulas stayed the same e) Dishonest analysts used the formulas for their own benefitc) The markets are affected by human emotion, which is hard to calculate
- 1111) Thomas Hobbes says human behaviour is reducible to: a) the will b) sexuality c) physics d) the free market e) lovec) physics
- 12(**Quiz 3 2019-2018 Question**) Garrett Hardin believes that it is unfair to ask people to refrain from personal gain because a) Not everybody can control themselves equally b) People will be conflicted, fighting their inner nature to seek the greatest advantage c) Not everybody has equal opportunities d) Shamming people into doing the right thing has never worked e) He actually thinks it is fair to ask people to limit personal gainb) People will be conflicted, fighting their inner nature to seek the greatest advantage
- 13(**Quiz 3 2019-2018 Question**) Hardin says ruin and resource destruction are a result of a) Cooperation b) Privatization c) Freedom in the commons d) Regulation e) Acting ethicallyc) Freedom in the commons
- 14(**Quiz 3 2019-2018 Question**) What is the ethical problem with volunteering for Hardin? a) Nothing. Hardin encourages it. b) You get little recognition c) People always do it for self-interested reasons d) It allows for those who don't volunteer to take advantage of those who do e) The causes are often suspectd) It allows for those who don't volunteer to take advantage of those who do
- 15(**Quiz 2 2018 Question**) Boatright claims that selling of financial products is especially susceptible to unethical practices of________ and _______ a) bragging/gloating b) twisting/suckering c) twisting/flipping d) exaggerating/flipping e) slander/hucksteringc) twisting/flipping
- 16(**Quiz 2 2018 Question**) Niall Ferguson says that the financial crisis of 2008 happened because: a) American companies were not creating new products b) Productivity had decreased c) There were too many defaults on subprime mortgages d) People lost trust in the capitalist system e) The government took over some financial institutionsc) There were too many defaults on subprime mortgages
- 17(**Quiz 2 2018 Question**) Ferguson often discourages homeownership because a) you have to sell a home when you move b) your children will inherit your home, leaving little money for retirement c) it is a large, undiversified investment d) governments have expropriated homes without compensation e) real estate agents have such high feesc) it is a large, undiversified investment
- 18(**Quiz 3 2018 Question**) According to Thomas Hobbes's, the sovereign's power is so strong because a) it must be at least as powerful as the people are self-interested b) the sovereign is inherently pathological c) monarchs in history have been strong d) it is outside the social contract e) it must threaten neighbouring powersa) it must be at least as powerful as the people are self-interested
- 19(**Quiz 3 2018 Question**) Hobbes see the will not as free but as based on the motion of ____________ and _______________. a) forward/backward b) left/right c) attraction/repulsion d) breaking/accelerating e) rest/agitationc) attraction/repulsion (physics)
- 20(**Quiz 2 2018 Question**) According to John R. Boatright, despite the fact that financial decision-making is typically limited to the financial factors of risk and return overtime, ethics must consider what? a) The fact that financial activity takes place primarily in an economic setting b) How money makes it back to the investor as quickly as is fair to the company c) The ethical treatment of the consumer only d) the ethical treatment of everyone affected by the decision e) both b and cd) the ethical treatment of everyone affected by the decision
- 21**Bonus** Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, and Freedie Mae were created to: a) Provide free housing to low-income Americans. b) Provide government-guaranteed mortgages, helping more Americans own homes c) Provide high-risk, high return investment opportunity d) Make money for the government e) Provide tax relief for Americans who already owned their homesb) Provide government-guaranteed mortgages, helping more Americans own homes
- 22**Bonus** Which of these concerns is NOT addressed in the U.N.’s Global Compact? a) Preventing child labor b) Protecting collective bargaining c) Environmentally friendly technology d) Eliminating corruption and bribery e) Paying a fair living wagee) Paying a fair living wage
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