Books

• Szostak, Rick (2009) The Causes of Economic Growth: Interdisciplinary Persepctives, Berlin: Springer, 372 p. Link
• Szostak, Rick (2005) Unifying Ethics,  Lanham, MD: University Press of America.  305p.
• Cross, Gary, and Rick Szostak (2004) Technology and American Society: A History, 2nd Ed., Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall Publishers, 350p.
• Szostak, Rick (2004) Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, Practice. Dordrecht: Springer, 301 p.
• Szostak, Rick (2003) A Schema for Unifying Human Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Culture, Selinsgrove PA: Susquehanna University Press, 378p. 
• Szostak, Rick (1999) Econ-Art: Divorcing Art from Science in Modern Economics, London: Pluto Press, 256p.  
• Cross, Gary, and Szostak, Rick (1995) Technology and American Society: A History, Engelwood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 337p.  
• Szostak, Rick (1995) Technological Innovation and the Great Depression, Boulder CO: Westview Press, 365p.
• Szostak, Rick (1991) The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution , Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 331p.

Journal Articles

• "Classifying Heterodoxy”, Journal of Philosophical Economics 1:2, 97-126, 2008.
• "Classification, Interdisciplinarity, and the Study of Science” Journal of Documentation 64:3, 319-32, 2008.
• "Modernism, Postmodernism, and Interdisciplinarity", Issues in Integrative Studies 26, 32-83, 2007.
• "An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Economic Growth” International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Science 2:3, 305-16, 2007. 
• "How (and How Not) to Distinguish the Humanities from Social Science" International Journal of the Humanities 5:6, 69-80, 2007. 
• "How and Why to Teach Interdisciplinary Research Practice” Journal of Research Practice 3:2, October, 2007.
• “Whither Interdisciplinarity?” [1250 word comment] Issues in Integrative Studies 24, 145-9, 2006.
• "Economic History as It Is and Should Be; Toward an Open, Honest, Methodologically Flexible, Theoretically   Diverse, Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Causes and Consequences of Economic Growth” Journal of Socio-Economics, August, 2006, 727-50.
• “Interdisciplinarity and the Teaching of Public Policy”  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24:4, Fall, 2005, 853-63.
• "Allocating Property Rights Over Shoreline: Institutional Change in the Newfoundland Fishery" (with Ken Norrie)  Newfoundland Studies, Fall, 2005, 27-56.
• “Evaluating the Historiography of the Great Depression: Explanation or Single-Theory Driven?” Journal of Economic Methodology 12:1, 2005, 35-61.
• “Classifying Scholarly Theories and Methods” Knowledge Organization. 2003, 30:1, 20-35.
• “Classifying Natural and Social Scientific Theories” Current Sociology 51:1, Jan, 2003, 27-49.
• “Politics and the Five Types of Ethical Analysis”  International Journal of Politics and Ethics 2:4,  2002, 275-90.
• “How to Do Interdisciplinarity: Integrating the Debate”, Issues in Integrative Studies 20, 2002, pp. 103-22.
• “Intuition and Interdisciplinarity: A Reply to Mackey”, Issues in Integrative Studies 20, 2002, pp. 131-7.
• “Putting Social Structure in its Place, Schematically” Issues in Integrative Studies 19, 2001, pp. 171-220.
• “Toward a Unified Human Science”, Issues in Integrative Studies 18, 2000, pp. 115-57.
• “Unifying Human Science Schematically:The Case of Art”, NSSA Perspectives Journal, 17:1, 2000, pp.139-51.
• “A Schema For Unifying Human Science: Application to Health and Population” Perspectives. Electronic journal, American Association for Behavioral and Social Sciences.  
• “The Economic Impacts of Road and Waterway Improvements” Transportation Quarterly, Fall, 1996, pp. 127-42.
• “Transportation Improvements and the Emergence of the Factory: A Reply to Jones” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, December 1992, pp. 395-400.
• “The History of Art and the Art in Economics”,  History of Economics Review, Summer 1992, pp. 70-107. Reprinted in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus: The Looking Glass of  Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2003.
• (with Michael B Percy) “The Political Economy of the Abolition of Seigneurial Tenure”, Explorations in Economic History, January 1992, pp. 51-68.
• “Institutional Inheritance and Early American Industrialization” Research in Economic History, Supplement, 1991, pp. 287-308.
• “The Organization of Work: The Emergence of the Factory Revisited”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, May 1989, pp. 343-58.
• “Comprehensive’ Curricular Reform: Providing Students With an Overview of the Scholarly Enterprise”, Journal of General Education 52:1, 2003, 27-49.  

Short Articles

• "Interdisciplinarity and Classification: A Reply to Hjorland", Journal of Documentation, 64:4, (letter to the editor), 2008.
• “Advancing Interdisciplinarity: Reflections on the 2005 AIS Conference” Newsletter of the Association for Integrative Studies, November, 2005.
• "Reflective Interdisciplinary Teaching: Insights From the Drury Conference" Newsletter of the Association for Integrative Studies, May, 2003.
• "The AIS Directory of Interdisciplinary PhD Programs" Newsletter of the Association for Integrative Studies, March, 2003.
• "Technological Innovation and the Causes for Unemploymnet" Policy Options, July/August,  2000, pp.30-2.
• "Lessons From the HRDC Scandal" Policy Options , June, 2000, pp 65-8.
• "Alberta Advantage University: The Ultimate in linking funding to performance in education", (with Bob Barnetson), Education Monitor, Winter, 1998, 8-9. 
• "Constitutional Reform Made Easy", Policy Options , December, 1997, 45-47.
• "The Significance of the 1993 Nobel Prize", CABE News, Winter, 1994, p. 3. 
• "A Senate For the Nation", Policy Options, October, 1991, p. 13.  

Co-Edited Works

• Canada Since Confederation: A History on CD-Rom, Chinook Multimedia, Sept. 2001, I was a member of a twelve person editorial board which commissioned and edited some 200 papers.
• Tales of Narcissus: The Looking Glass of Economic Science (co-edited with Craig Freedman), forthcoming, New York: Nova Science, 2002, 301p. 

Contributions to Edited Works 

• "Beyond Aboutness: Classifying Causal Links in the Service of Interdisciplinarity"  (with Claudio Gnoli),  Proceedings of ASIST Special Interest Group on Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, forthcoming, Nov. 7, 2009.  To be archived on D-List.
• "Universal and Domain-specific Classifications from an Interdisciplinary Perspective", forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 2010 conference of the International Soceity for Knowledge Organization.
• "The Interdisciplinary Research Process, The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, forthcoming,  2200 words.
•  "A Canadian and Collaborative Perspective: The Office of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta", in Tanya Augsburg and Stuart Henry, eds., The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies: Interdisciplinary Transformation in Undergraduate American Higher Education, McFarland Press.  2009.
• "Issues, Challenges, and Prospects: Beyond the Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies" (with Tanya Augsburg, Stuart Henry, and William H. Newell, eds.), The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies: Interdisciplinary Transformation in Undergraduate American Higher Education, McFarland Press.  2009.
• "Integrating Interdisciplinary Studies across the Humanities and Social Sciences", in Raphael Foshay, ed., The Scope of Interdisciplinarity, Athabasca University Press.  2009.
• "Classifying by phenomena, theories, and methods: examples with focused social science theories", (with Claudio Gnoli), in Culture and identity in knowledge organization, proceedings of the 19th international ISKO conference, Montreal, 2008, Wurzburg: Ergon. p. 205-211.
• "Interdisciplinarity and the Classification of Scholarly Documents by Phenomena, Theories, and Methods" in Blanca Rodriguez Bravo and Luisa Elvita Diez, eds., Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in the Organization of Scientific Knowledge: Actas de VIII Congreso ISKO-Espana. Leon: University of Leon, 469-77.
• "Confessions of an Ex-Beauty Queen: Some Simple Lessons for the Profession", in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus: The Looking Glass of Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2002, 237-46.
• "The Domestic Economy: An Overview" in Canada Since Confederation: A History on CD-Rom, Chinook Multimedia, Sept. 2001, 90msp.
• "The Meaning of Economic History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" in Pat Hudson, ed., The Meaning of Economic History, Glasgow: Economic History Society, 2001, pp. 357-61. 

Encyclopedia Articles

• ABC-Clio Encyclopaedia of World History (August 2010)
  
  • "The Special Perspectives of World History", 5,000 words.
  • "Can We Learn From History?", 2,000 words.
  • "Why Britain Industrialised First", 1,850 words.
  • "Technology and the Early Industrial Revolution", 1,250 words.
  • "The Emergence of the English Cotton Industry", 1,000 words.
  • "The Organization of Industry: The Factory, Interchangeable Parts, Division of Labor", 1,200 words.
  • "Electricity and Its Uses", 1,250 words.
  • "Causes of the Great Depression", 950 words.
  • "The Great Depression in the United States", 1,200 words.
  • "The Asembly Line", 900 words.
  • "Critiquing the Idea of Progress", 600 words.
• "Science and Technology", Gale Encyclopaedia of the Great Depression, 2004, 22200 words. 
• "Great Depression", Stanley I. Kulter, ed., Scriber's Dictionary of  American History. 2003. 3200 Words.
• "Business Cycles",  Stanley I Kulter, ed., Scriber's Dictionary of  American History. 2003. 3200 Words.
• "Stephenson Family",  Joel Mokyr, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. 2003. 600 Words.
• "Road Transportation: Historical Overview", Joel Mokyr, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. 2003. 3500 Words.

Research Completed But Not Yet Published

• "The Interdisciplinary Research Process", forthcoming for book co-edited with Allen Repko and Bill Newell.  Shorter version submitted to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity.
• “Restoring Human Progress” Part I of this book reviews contemporary concerns regarding the possibility of progress. Part II investigates at a disaggregated level whether human history has been ‘progressive’.  Part III then explores ways in which progress might be achieved over a much wider range of phenomena. Excerpts from book:  Outline; Chapter 1; Chapter 11; Chapter 17.

Research in Progress

• “Classification and Interdisciplinarity” The above project is part of an even larger research program focused on showing how interdisciplinary research is best performed, and in particular how it can be aided by the various classifications I have developed in previous work.  I have an interest in this respect in how public policy analysis can be aided by interdisciplinary analysis. 
• “Classifying Scholarly Documents for Interdisciplinary Research” I continue to develop my arguments that scholarly documents can and should be classified with respect to universal and exhaustive classifications of phenomena, theories, and methods.  More details can be found through the Research Interests link at the top of this page, which outlines my ongoing "Classifying Scholarship" Project.
• “Interdisciplinary Research Practice” I am co-editing a book with Bill Newell and Allen Repko.