A+ Answers of the following Questions

1. Few businesses maintain that the socially responsible course to take is the utilitarian one with the lowest net costs.
True
False

2. Utilitarianism is attractive to many because it matches the views we tend to hold  when discussing governmental policies and public goods.
True
False

3. Negative rights are defined entirely in terms of the duties others have not to interfere with you.
True
False

1. Cost-benefit analysis is used to determine the desirability of investing in a project (such as a dam, factory, or public park) by figuring whether its present and future economic benefits outweigh its present and future economic costs.
True
False

2. Rule utilitarianism looks only at moral rules of a particular action.
True
False

3. Intrinsic goods are things that are desired for their own sake, such as health and life.
True
False

1. Considerations to follow in determining what the moral thing to do might be are:
You must determine what alternative actions are available. 
You must estimate the direct and indirect costs and benefits the action would produce for
all involved in the foreseeable future.
You must choose the alternative that produces the greatest sum total of utility.
All the above
A & C

2. UNOCAL worked with the Burmese army to push the pipeline using forced labor.
True
False

3. Major problems with the utilitarian reliance on measurement include:
Comparative measures of the values things have for different people cannot be made; we cannot get into each others' skins to measure the pleasure or pain caused.
All benefits and costs are possible to measure.
The potential benefits and costs of an action cannot always be reliably predicted.
All the above
A & C

1. UNOCAL agrees that it shares responsibility with the Burmese army over treatment of pipeline citizens.
True
False

2. Many economists now advocate retaining the market system and private property while modifying their workings through government regulation. This is known as a:
Pure capitalist economy
Evolutionary economy
Mixed economy
Free market economy

3. According to Locke, the power of government should be:
Expanded to meet the needs of all citizens.
Expanded to meet the needs of corporations.
Limited, extending only far enough to protect basic rights of all citizens.
Limited, extending only far enough to protect the basic rights of corporations.

1. Modifying Locke's views on free markets, Adam Smith's arguments rest on __________ arguments that unregulated markets and private property will produce greater benefits than any other system.
Kantian
Utilitarian
Communist
None of the above

2. Smith's utilitarian argument is most commonly criticized for making what some
call unrealistic arguments.
Smith assumes that no one seller can control the price of a good.
Smith assumes that the manufacturer will pay for all the resources used to produce a product.
Smith assumes that humans are motivated only by a natural, self-interested desire for profit.
All the above
B & C

3. Karl Marx offers the most critical view of modern private property and free market institutions. Marx claims that free-market capitalism necessarily produces:
Extremes of inefficiency
Extremes of efficiency
Extremes of equality
Extremes of inequality