Exam 1: Economics of Human Rights

What are four questions that can be asked to determine economic efficiency in an agency's handling of human rights issues?

What does it mean at the point where the marginal benefit curve crosses the marginal benefit curve?

What are incentives and how can policymakers use incentives to change outcomes?

What are some of the major United States federal agencies involved in human rights and what are their focuses?

What are some of the ways the U.S. Department of State provides information about human rights?

How does the U.N. Office of the High Commission on Human Rights (OHCHR) define human rights?

What biases would you face when doing research in the economics of human rights?

How did historical interest in human rights affect current-day human rights agreements?

What are the six main venues for the enforcement of human rights law and penalties?

What are some of the explicit (monetary) and implicit (nonmonetary) costs of human rights violations?

What is the main United States federal agency in charge of human rights issues?

What is the main reason there are differences in opinion when dealing with a particular human rights issue?

What is capital punishment?

What are nine basic steps that can help an economist analyze a human rights topic with economic modeling?

How is marginal cost portrayed on a graph and why?

What are some steps an economist can take to find information to begin research?

Where are some places that an economist can go to find information to begin research?

What is the source of the most widely accepted definition of human rights?

What is genocide?

What is a human rights violation?