HD - Full course summary notes

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Full course notes covering all topics and all weeks. Topics covered: Week 1 (Introduction): Three analytical lenses (microeconomics, law, corporate responsibility), normative vs instrumental decision-making, stakeholder analysis, Rainbow Diagram, core legal concepts (agreement, ownership, control, liability). Week 3 (Normative Decision-Making): Welfare economics, consumer and producer surplus, externalities, market failures, Carroll's Pyramid of CSR, utilitarian and deontological ethics, competition law, Australian Consumer Law, company law, contract law, restraint of trade clauses. Week 4 (Customer Relations): Case study methodology, AIDS in Africa pharmaceutical case, price discrimination with worked example, intellectual property law, TRIPS Agreement, compulsory licensing, Doha Declaration. Week 5 (Employee and Supplier Relations): Uber Eats gig economy case, employee vs independent contractor classification, sham contracting, monopsony and labour market power, employment law. Week 7 (Competitor Relations): Collaboration vs collusion, game theory, Nash Equilibrium, Prisoner's Dilemma, Cournot competition, cartel conduct, ACCC enforcement, Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), penalties. Week 8 (Government and Society): Australian tax system, economic incidence of taxation, corporate tax avoidance, BEPS, tax evasion, tax gap, shadow economy, CR obligations regarding tax.