Harrison Frye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harrison Frye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harrison |
| FAMILY NAME | Frye |
| SIGNATURE | FRYE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7181-6504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When community is self-defeating
Critics of the market sometimes argue that market competition damages our relations with one another. We should care about this, on one telling, because of how this undermines community that undergirds equal social recognition and esteem. Rather than rebut this challenge to markets, this paper considers whether this problem is solved by an economy explicitly dedicated to community. I develop an informal model of when community can be self-defeati…
The Real Problem of Envy
Envy poses a threat to the stability of cooperative institutions. John Rawls advances a provocative articulation of how this could be, arguing that increasing inequality generates sufficient envy to threaten stability. I contend that this perspective is mistaken due to a faulty understanding of the psychology of envy. However, rather than dissipating the problem of envy, as some suggest, a proper understanding of the psychology of envy should lea…
Domination at Work
Political theorists and philosophers have converged mainly on the following claim: workers face the threat of domination in the workplace. While many propose reforms to capitalism to address this domination, a growing chorus of radical Republicans argue that domination at work results from the capitalist distribution of ownership. In this paper, I argue that this focus on ownership is a mistake. Instead, I contend we ought to direct our attention…
Is Belief in Political Obligation Ideological
Rescuing the Market from Communal Criticism
The market is the dominant form of organizing economic activity today. This does not mean that the market is without its critics. Some question the market's compatibility with freedom. Others focus on how the market contributes to inequality. Still others worry that the market is irrational. While these are important challenges to the market, this paper focuses on a different set of worries about the market. A growing concern in the scholarly lit…
Commons, Communes, and Freedom
Private property rights involve coercion against non-owners in their enforcement. As critics of private property point out, this coercion involves a restriction on freedom. Sometimes, such critics suggest that collective property expands rights of access, and therefore expands freedom relative to private property. Does this follow? This paper argues no. To make this argument, I look at two particular forms of collective property: open-access comm…
The Problem of Public Shaming
The social bases of freedom
I argue social and political freedom is not primarily about the absence of constraints, whether those constraints be in the form of interference or domination. Instead, social freedom is centrally about what makes us free. That is, the question of social freedom is first and foremost about determining the positive preconditions of being a free person within society. Social freedom is about what I call the social bases of freedom, or those feature…
Efficiency and Domination in the Socialist Republic
In a recent essay in this journal, Tom O’Shea defends socialist republicanism, marrying the value of freedom as nondomination to public ownership of the means of production. In this reply, I argue that the efficiency costs that often attach to public ownership may undercut the ability of the socialist republic to combat domination by public agents. I provide two reasons in support of this claim. First, the economic gains provided by efficiency ca…
Democratic Authority and Respect for the Law
Freedom without law
Untangling the relationship of law and liberty is among the core problems of political theory. One prominent position is that there is no freedom without law. This article challenges the argument that, because law is constitutive of freedom, there is no freedom without law. I suggest that, once properly understood, the argument that law is constitutive of freedom does not uniquely apply to law. It also applies to social norms. What law does for f…
The Relation of Envy to Distributive Justice
Putting Incentives in Context
Domination at Work
Political theorists and philosophers have converged mainly on the following claim: workers face the threat of domination in the workplace. While many propose reforms to capitalism to address this domination, a growing chorus of radical Republicans argue that domination at work results from the capitalist distribution of ownership. In this paper, I argue that this focus on ownership is a mistake. Instead, I contend we ought to direct our attention…
Efficiency and Domination in the Socialist Republic
In a recent essay in this journal, Tom O’Shea defends socialist republicanism, marrying the value of freedom as nondomination to public ownership of the means of production. In this reply, I argue that the efficiency costs that often attach to public ownership may undercut the ability of the socialist republic to combat domination by public agents. I provide two reasons in support of this claim. First, the economic gains provided by efficiency ca…
Freedom without law
Untangling the relationship of law and liberty is among the core problems of political theory. One prominent position is that there is no freedom without law. This article challenges the argument that, because law is constitutive of freedom, there is no freedom without law. I suggest that, once properly understood, the argument that law is constitutive of freedom does not uniquely apply to law. It also applies to social norms. What law does for f…
The Problem of Public Shaming
Rescuing the Market from Communal Criticism
The market is the dominant form of organizing economic activity today. This does not mean that the market is without its critics. Some question the market's compatibility with freedom. Others focus on how the market contributes to inequality. Still others worry that the market is irrational. While these are important challenges to the market, this paper focuses on a different set of worries about the market. A growing concern in the scholarly lit…
The Real Problem of Envy
Envy poses a threat to the stability of cooperative institutions. John Rawls advances a provocative articulation of how this could be, arguing that increasing inequality generates sufficient envy to threaten stability. I contend that this perspective is mistaken due to a faulty understanding of the psychology of envy. However, rather than dissipating the problem of envy, as some suggest, a proper understanding of the psychology of envy should lea…
Putting Incentives in Context
The Relation of Envy to Distributive Justice
Democratic Authority and Respect for the Law
Freedom without law
Untangling the relationship of law and liberty is among the core problems of political theory. One prominent position is that there is no freedom without law. This article challenges the argument that, because law is constitutive of freedom, there is no freedom without law. I suggest that, once properly understood, the argument that law is constitutive of freedom does not uniquely apply to law. It also applies to social norms. What law does for f…
The social bases of freedom
I argue social and political freedom is not primarily about the absence of constraints, whether those constraints be in the form of interference or domination. Instead, social freedom is centrally about what makes us free. That is, the question of social freedom is first and foremost about determining the positive preconditions of being a free person within society. Social freedom is about what I call the social bases of freedom, or those feature…
Efficiency and Domination in the Socialist Republic
In a recent essay in this journal, Tom O’Shea defends socialist republicanism, marrying the value of freedom as nondomination to public ownership of the means of production. In this reply, I argue that the efficiency costs that often attach to public ownership may undercut the ability of the socialist republic to combat domination by public agents. I provide two reasons in support of this claim. First, the economic gains provided by efficiency ca…
The Problem of Public Shaming
Commons, Communes, and Freedom
Private property rights involve coercion against non-owners in their enforcement. As critics of private property point out, this coercion involves a restriction on freedom. Sometimes, such critics suggest that collective property expands rights of access, and therefore expands freedom relative to private property. Does this follow? This paper argues no. To make this argument, I look at two particular forms of collective property: open-access comm…
Is Belief in Political Obligation Ideological
Rescuing the Market from Communal Criticism
The market is the dominant form of organizing economic activity today. This does not mean that the market is without its critics. Some question the market's compatibility with freedom. Others focus on how the market contributes to inequality. Still others worry that the market is irrational. While these are important challenges to the market, this paper focuses on a different set of worries about the market. A growing concern in the scholarly lit…
Domination at Work
Political theorists and philosophers have converged mainly on the following claim: workers face the threat of domination in the workplace. While many propose reforms to capitalism to address this domination, a growing chorus of radical Republicans argue that domination at work results from the capitalist distribution of ownership. In this paper, I argue that this focus on ownership is a mistake. Instead, I contend we ought to direct our attention…
The Real Problem of Envy
Envy poses a threat to the stability of cooperative institutions. John Rawls advances a provocative articulation of how this could be, arguing that increasing inequality generates sufficient envy to threaten stability. I contend that this perspective is mistaken due to a faulty understanding of the psychology of envy. However, rather than dissipating the problem of envy, as some suggest, a proper understanding of the psychology of envy should lea…
When community is self-defeating
Critics of the market sometimes argue that market competition damages our relations with one another. We should care about this, on one telling, because of how this undermines community that undergirds equal social recognition and esteem. Rather than rebut this challenge to markets, this paper considers whether this problem is solved by an economy explicitly dedicated to community. I develop an informal model of when community can be self-defeati…
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