Research

Research Interests:

Innovative research methods, theories of exchange, interpersonal abuse of power (crime, deviance), labor and labor markets, ethnic/immigrant markets, sustainable development, global development and inequality

Publications:

Robison, L.J. & Oliver, J.R. (forthcoming 2019) “Rationalizing Predictably Irrational Choices: The Social Capital Synthesis”, Annals of Regional Science.

Robison, L.J., Just, D.R. & Oliver, J.R. (2019) “Doing Business in the World without Becoming Worldly,” BYU Studies Quarterly, Apr. 58: 1.

Quereshi, A., Robison, L., Oliver, J. & Ogilvie, J.W. (2019) “Understanding Colonoscopy Decision-Making: Applying Economic Theory,” Diseases of the Colon & Rectum 61(5).

Oliver, J (2018) “The Bottom of the Iceberg: The Positive Impact of Behind-the-Scenes Caring,” Perspective: Understanding Great Teaching, 18(3).

Gold, S.J. & Oliver, J.R. (2017) “Will Trump’s ‘Color-blind’ Pro-business Policies Help Black Entrepreneurs Too?”, The Conversation, Feb. 6, 2017.

Oliver, J.R. & Robison, L.J. (2017) “Rationalizing Inconsistent Definitions of Commodification: A Social Exchange Perspective,” Modern Economy, 8.

Winder, R. Robison, L. & Oliver, J. (2016) “Relational Economics: Motives Underlying Customer Voice,” American Society for Quality.

Oliver, J. “General Help,” in: Shlapentokh, V. and Beasley, E. (2015) Power and Inequality in Interpersonal Relations, Transaction Publishers: Piscataway, N.J.

Robison, L. Oliver, J. & Frank, K. (2015) “Commodity and Relational Good Exchanges: Commodification and Decommodification 2,” Proceedings of the First International Congress on Applied Sciences: Social Capital, October 23-24, 2015, Konya Turkey.

Robison, L., Oliver, J. & Frank, K. (2015). “Commodity and Relational Good Exchanges: Commodification and Decommodification 1,” in 2015 Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 3-5, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts (No. 189690). Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Works of fiction (under pen name).

Papers in Progress:

Oliver, J. “Framing Neoliberalism: The Colombian National Media’s Role in the Neoliberal Resistance Effort”

Oliver, J. “Targeting Supporters in the ‘Indigenous Colombian’ Movement”

Oliver, J. & Robison, L. “Toward an Improved Conceptualization of Commodification”

Robison, L. & Oliver, J. “Resolving Economic Anomalies by Accounting for Relational Goods”

Robison, L. & Oliver, J. “Impact of Social Capital on Female Headed Household Income: 1980 to 2010”

Robison, L. Ritchie, B. & Oliver, J. “Brokered Relationships”

Other research:

Survey designer: Why people get colonoscopies. With Lindon J Robison and Jaimie Ogilvie Jr.