Nien‐hê Hsieh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4384651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nien‐hê Hsieh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nien‐hê |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsieh |
| SIGNATURE | HSIEH N H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9657-3932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Monetary impact valuation for sustainable business
Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold
Human rights have come to play a prominent role in debates about the responsibilities of business. In the business ethics literature, there are two approaches to the question of whether businesses have human rights obligations. The ‘moral’ approach conceives of human rights as antecedently existing basic moral rights. The ‘institutional’ approach starts with contemporary human rights practice in which human rights refer to rights enumerated in th…
Should Business Have Human Rights Obligations
Focusing on the case of multinational enterprises (MNEs), this article argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their managers. The article begins by distinguishing business and human rights from the more general topic of corporate responsibility. Following Buchanan (2013), the article takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all …
Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement
Justice at Work: Arguing for Property‐Owning Democracy
Is Incomparability a Problem for Anyone?
The incomparability of alternatives is thought to pose a problem for justified choice, particularly for proponents of comparativism – the view that comparative facts about alternatives determine what one rationally ought to choose. As a solution, it has been argued that alternatives judged incomparable by one of the three standard comparative relations, “better than,” “worse than,” and “equally good,” are comparable by some fourth relation, such …
Survey Article: Justice in Production
Liberal egalitarianism has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to what justice requires for the institutions that structure economic production. In the light of such criticism, this paper investigates arguments that liberal egalitarians might give for the kinds of institutional reforms that critics have proposed. These reforms include (1) guarantees for meaningful work, (2) worker participation in the governance of economic enterpri…
Pairwise Comparison and Numbers Skepticism
In this article, we defend pairwise comparison as a method to resolve conflicting claims from different people that cannot be jointly satisfied because of a scarcity of resources. We consider Michael Otsuka's recent challenge that pairwise comparison leads to intransitive choices for the ‘numbers skeptic’ (someone who believes the numbers should not count in forced choices among lives) and Frances Kamm's responses to Otsuka's challenge. We argue …
The Values of the Pluralist Commonwealth
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Values of the Pluralist Commonwealth Nien-hê Hsieh Nien-hê Hsieh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (3): 45–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/25702835 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nien-hê Hsieh; The Values of the Pluralist Commonwealth. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (3): 45–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25702835 …
The Numbers Problem
Rawlsian Justice and Workplace Republicanism
Although Rawls concludes that he shall not pursue these questions, he writes that certainly these questions call for careful examination. The long-run prospects of a just constitutional regime may depend on them.3 Following Rawls's exhortation, this paper takes up these questions in the light of his account of justice as fairness. In the end, I argue that justice as fairness, as Rawls suggests, grounds worker participation in the governance of ec…
Equality, Clumpiness and Incomparability
The incomparability of two items is thought to pose a problem for making justified choices and for consequentialist theories that rely on comparing states of the world to judge the goodness of a particular course of action. In response, it has been argued that items thought incomparable by one of the three standard relations, ‘better than’, ‘worse than’ and ‘equally good’, are instead comparable by some fourth relation, such as ‘roughly equal’ or…
Moral Desert, Fairness and Legitimate Expectations in the Market
Do people morally deserve what they earn in the market? More specifically, can people legitimately claim to deserve what they earn in the market in a way that counts against redistributing those earnings? As most liberal political philosophers do, I argue that the answer is no. Unlike many of these philosophers, however, I do not focus on whether or not people can be deserving. Instead, I focus on the relationship between social institutions and …
Survey Article: Justice in Production
Liberal egalitarianism has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to what justice requires for the institutions that structure economic production. In the light of such criticism, this paper investigates arguments that liberal egalitarians might give for the kinds of institutional reforms that critics have proposed. These reforms include (1) guarantees for meaningful work, (2) worker participation in the governance of economic enterpri…
Should Business Have Human Rights Obligations
Focusing on the case of multinational enterprises (MNEs), this article argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their managers. The article begins by distinguishing business and human rights from the more general topic of corporate responsibility. Following Buchanan (2013), the article takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all …
Equality, Clumpiness and Incomparability
The incomparability of two items is thought to pose a problem for making justified choices and for consequentialist theories that rely on comparing states of the world to judge the goodness of a particular course of action. In response, it has been argued that items thought incomparable by one of the three standard relations, ‘better than’, ‘worse than’ and ‘equally good’, are instead comparable by some fourth relation, such as ‘roughly equal’ or…
The Numbers Problem
Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold
Human rights have come to play a prominent role in debates about the responsibilities of business. In the business ethics literature, there are two approaches to the question of whether businesses have human rights obligations. The ‘moral’ approach conceives of human rights as antecedently existing basic moral rights. The ‘institutional’ approach starts with contemporary human rights practice in which human rights refer to rights enumerated in th…
Moral Desert, Fairness and Legitimate Expectations in the Market
Do people morally deserve what they earn in the market? More specifically, can people legitimately claim to deserve what they earn in the market in a way that counts against redistributing those earnings? As most liberal political philosophers do, I argue that the answer is no. Unlike many of these philosophers, however, I do not focus on whether or not people can be deserving. Instead, I focus on the relationship between social institutions and …
Moral Desert, Fairness and Legitimate Expectations in the Market
Do people morally deserve what they earn in the market? More specifically, can people legitimately claim to deserve what they earn in the market in a way that counts against redistributing those earnings? As most liberal political philosophers do, I argue that the answer is no. Unlike many of these philosophers, however, I do not focus on whether or not people can be deserving. Instead, I focus on the relationship between social institutions and …
Rawlsian Justice and Workplace Republicanism
Although Rawls concludes that he shall not pursue these questions, he writes that certainly these questions call for careful examination. The long-run prospects of a just constitutional regime may depend on them.3 Following Rawls's exhortation, this paper takes up these questions in the light of his account of justice as fairness. In the end, I argue that justice as fairness, as Rawls suggests, grounds worker participation in the governance of ec…
Equality, Clumpiness and Incomparability
The incomparability of two items is thought to pose a problem for making justified choices and for consequentialist theories that rely on comparing states of the world to judge the goodness of a particular course of action. In response, it has been argued that items thought incomparable by one of the three standard relations, ‘better than’, ‘worse than’ and ‘equally good’, are instead comparable by some fourth relation, such as ‘roughly equal’ or…
The Values of the Pluralist Commonwealth
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Values of the Pluralist Commonwealth Nien-hê Hsieh Nien-hê Hsieh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (3): 45–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/25702835 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nien-hê Hsieh; The Values of the Pluralist Commonwealth. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (3): 45–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25702835 …
The Numbers Problem
Is Incomparability a Problem for Anyone?
The incomparability of alternatives is thought to pose a problem for justified choice, particularly for proponents of comparativism – the view that comparative facts about alternatives determine what one rationally ought to choose. As a solution, it has been argued that alternatives judged incomparable by one of the three standard comparative relations, “better than,” “worse than,” and “equally good,” are comparable by some fourth relation, such …
Survey Article: Justice in Production
Liberal egalitarianism has been criticized for paying insufficient attention to what justice requires for the institutions that structure economic production. In the light of such criticism, this paper investigates arguments that liberal egalitarians might give for the kinds of institutional reforms that critics have proposed. These reforms include (1) guarantees for meaningful work, (2) worker participation in the governance of economic enterpri…
Pairwise Comparison and Numbers Skepticism
In this article, we defend pairwise comparison as a method to resolve conflicting claims from different people that cannot be jointly satisfied because of a scarcity of resources. We consider Michael Otsuka's recent challenge that pairwise comparison leads to intransitive choices for the ‘numbers skeptic’ (someone who believes the numbers should not count in forced choices among lives) and Frances Kamm's responses to Otsuka's challenge. We argue …
Justice at Work: Arguing for Property‐Owning Democracy
Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement
Should Business Have Human Rights Obligations
Focusing on the case of multinational enterprises (MNEs), this article argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their managers. The article begins by distinguishing business and human rights from the more general topic of corporate responsibility. Following Buchanan (2013), the article takes the ideal of status egalitarianism to be central to human rights. Status egalitarianism holds that all …
Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold
Human rights have come to play a prominent role in debates about the responsibilities of business. In the business ethics literature, there are two approaches to the question of whether businesses have human rights obligations. The ‘moral’ approach conceives of human rights as antecedently existing basic moral rights. The ‘institutional’ approach starts with contemporary human rights practice in which human rights refer to rights enumerated in th…
Monetary impact valuation for sustainable business
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