Blockchain, Free-Markets, and Global Civil Society Research Paper

Dear Students,
Attached is a list of final paper/exam choices. You can choose any of the papers here. YOU NEED TO TELL ME WHICH CHOICE YOU ARE MAKING BY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25. There will only be about 8 students assigned to any one choice. This is first come first serve. I have also put a full paper copy of this email in 'Course Documents'.



I will send around shortly, the plan for the remainder of the semester.

Business Ethics Final Paper
The following are a selection of choices for your final paper / take-home exam.


1. Choose from one of the following Theories of Human Nature, and explain the theory, and then how it reconciles or not with the free market system. Your goal is to understand the theory of your choice in detail, and then explain how it works with the free-market system. You must define the free-market system which you are analyzing. Is this the current system (oligopoly system) or the pareto optimal system as defined by Heath? Theories to consider: Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Darwinism, or Marxism.

2. Create your own professional ethics system for the major you are studying. This means create an ethics system for all marketers, supply chain, finance professionals, etc.. The ethics system must address efficiency (utilitarian outcomes) and duties (deontological ethics). You cannot use or rely on other professional ethics systems, unless of course, you are supporting their ethics with utilitarianism or deontological ethics.

3. Examine wage discrimination (choose only one: race, gender, sexual orientation, religion) in the workplace in the United States. First, present a cross-sectional study as of today (or hereabout), then a longitudinal study examining how discrimination has changed over time. Make sure to include significant changes in laws (Civil Rights Act of 1954), and their impact on discrimination. Your examination should analyze minority groups in relation to others. Make sure to review the numerous studies that have been done. Your goal is to understand how others have studied discrimination, and how they have teased out bias from other factors related to differences in pay. There are many, many studies analyzing this from multiple different lenses.

4. Artificial Intelligence and the Future Corporation. Your goal is to examine how AI will change the workplace of the future. Not only are you to research AI with respect to business, but identify the many ethical challenges that are to come. You want to examine the impact of AI on decision making, employment, wages, the environment, product safety, and the wage gap between the rich and the poor. This is a hot topic, and there are many people studying the impact of AI.

5. Blockchain, Free-Markets and Global Civil Society. Your goal is to examine blockchain technology and how it will revolutionize (or not) the free-market (globally) and how this change will impact nation-states. Explain what blockchain is and how it is being used in the market today, but also, and more importantly, how it will transform the marketplace in the future. Pay close attention to the impact this technology may have on the sovereignty of nation-states. This is a hot topic, and there are many people studying the impact of blockchain on business.

6. CSR as a Competitive Strategy. Analyze the methods in which corporations are embracing CSR (think Patagonia and Veja), and explain how some of the more progressive companies are not disadvantaged from this ethical approach, but instead are thriving ahead of their competition. Your goal is to put together short case studies for 3 companies not discussed in this course.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. No more than 7,000 words, and no less than 4,000 words.
2. Paragraph spacing 1.2.
3. No more than a 300 word abstract in the front of the paper.
4. A two paragraph summary of the research, and findings.
5. Atleast 10 peer-reviewed journals need to be cited. All other citations are welcomed and they include but are not limited to company webpage, government webpages, online research not peer reviewed, newspapers, magazines, and white papers.
6. You should have a Title Page, and on this page should be your name, paper title, and abstract.
7. Citations should follow APA format.
8. You need a bibliography and it must follow APA format.
9. You must have page numbers in the bottom center.
10. Considering it will take me a very long time to read all of these papers, you will submit your paper to me by no later than May 1. You can submit this early, if you like.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. No more than 7,000 words, and no less than 4.000 words.
2. Paragraph spacing 1.2.
3. No more than a 300 word abstract in the front of the paper.
4. A two paragraph summary of the research, and findings.
5. Atleast 10 peer-reviewed journals need to be cited. All other citations are welcomed and they include but are not limited to company webpage, government webpages, online research not peer reviewed, newspapers, magazines, and white papers.
6. You should have a Title Page, and on this page should be your name, paper title, and abstract.
7. Citations should follow APA format.
8. You need a bibliography and it must follow APA format.
9. You must have page numbers in the bottom center.
10. Considering it will take me a very long time to read all of these papers, you will submit your paper to me by no later than May 1. You can submit this early, if you like.