There Is No Doubt That the Media Are

question 40

Multiple Choice

There is no doubt that the media are

• A) ignoring ethical violations in their own industry.
• B) reporting ethical problems more frequently and fervently.
• C) defending the right of business to be conducted amorally.
• D) reporting breaches of ethics in politics more than they are reporting business ethics violations.

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Definitions:

Vertical Equity

A principle in taxation stating that taxpayers with a higher ability to pay should contribute more in taxes than those with a lesser ability to pay.

Flow Measure

A quantitative assessment that represents movement of items over time, often used in economics to track variables like income.

Consumption

The consumption of products and services by individuals in a household.

Impossibility Theorem

A proposition demonstrated by Kenneth Arrow showing that no system of aggregating individual preferences into social decisions will always yield consistent, nonarbitrary results.