Professional Interests

• The social capital paradigm
  • social capital
  • networks
  • institutions
• Attachment values and socio-emotional goods and their influence on:
  • farmland values
  • environmental practices
  • surveys and framing responses
  • transaction costs
• Social capital and risk responses
• Economics value of alternative network designs

Selected Publications

Robison, Lindon J. and Peter J. Barry. Present Value Models and Investment Analysis. Northport, AL: The Academic Page, 1996 (661 pages).

Robison, Lindon J. and Marcelo E. Siles. "Social Capital and Household Income Distributions in the United States: 1980, 1990." Journal of Socio-Economics 28(1999):43-93.

Robison, Lindon J., A. Allan Schmid, and Marcelo E. Siles. "Is Social Capital Really Capital?" Review of Social Economy, forthcoming.

Funded Research Projects

• Annotated Bibliography with the World Bank
• Social Capital, Rural Development and Household Income Distributions
• Economic Development in Nicaragua with the World Bank
• Attachment Values Associated with Farmland