Explain How the Internet Caused Disruption Among Businesses

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Essay

Explain how the Internet caused disruption among businesses.

Identify the impact of specific acts like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on international business practices.

Analyze the various defenses available to defendants in criminal cases.

Understand the concept of strict liability crimes and the necessity (or lack thereof) of mens rea.

Distinguish between different types of offenses (felonies, misdemeanors, strict liability crimes) and their penalties.

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Definitions:

Composition

The makeup or structure of something, such as the arrangement and proportion of parts within a work of art or a financial portfolio.

Stock's Beta

An indicator of how volatile a stock is compared to the general market, where a beta value above 1 signifies that the stock experiences more fluctuation than the market overall.

Standard Deviation

In finance, standard deviation measures the amount of variance or dispersion of a set of financial returns, indicating the investment's volatility.

Expansionary Fiscal Policy

An increase in government purchases, decrease in net taxes, or some combination of the two aimed at increasing aggregate demand enough to reduce unemployment and return the economy to its potential output; fiscal policy used to close a recessionary gap