My recent research has focused on the development of classifications -- primarily of the phenomena scholars study, and the strengths and weaknesses of the theories and methods they use (see my 2004 book Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory.,
...MoreMy recent research has focused on the development of classifications -- primarily of the phenomena scholars study, and the strengths and weaknesses of the theories and methods they use (see my 2004 book Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory., Method, Practice). I have also developed a 12-step process for interdisciplinary analysis which incorporates the use of these classifications. My present research -- a book tentatively titled Exogenous Growth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Economic Growth -- applies this 12-step process to the study of economic growth. In doing so, I can also draw on my earlier research as a very interdisciplinary economic historian and methodologist. I have written books about the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression, two editions of a co-authored text in the history of North American Technology, and a methodological critique of economics. I recently published a book, Unifying Ethics, which argues that there are five broad types of ethical analysis, and that these often point in the same direction. I have a book manuscript under review, Restoring Human Progress; Transcending the Postmodern Condition; this book argues that it is possible to achieve progress across a wide range of phenomena for which regress can be observed historically. My website at www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/economics/szostak.cfm provides further information.
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