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For philosophers and others more concerned about the normative adequacy of different well-being theories, the network theory provides an indicator of what well-being means in positive psychology that will be useful when considering how to translate positive psychology into other areas. In I The Good Life, i Bishop explains why this limited cross-disciplinary dialogue is pernicious to both fields, advocates for an interdisciplinary paradigm for well-being studies that he calls the inclusive approach, and develops a theory of well-being that unifies the philosophy and positive psychology literature: the network theory of well-being. Improving Interdisciplinary Research in Well-Being - A Review with Further Comments of Michael Bishop's The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being Michael's Bishop's I The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being i hopefully represents a turning point in the study of well-being. However, it is worth underlining that because such accounts are present in both philosophy and psychology and because they explicitly make strong value judgements, their relationship with the network theory is an area where much headway could be made to unify the normative and empirical perspectives of philosophers and psychologists. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "We Won, You Lost, Eat That!: A Political History of Tax in New Zealand Since 1840," by Paul Goldsmith.

The article reviews the book "On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion," by Samuel Fleischacker.

Reviews several books. 'Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times,' edited by Andrew Glyn; 'Keynes on Population,' by John Toye; 'The Splendid Feast of Reason,' S. Jonathan Singer.

Books reviewed in this article: John Nieuwenhuysen, Peter Lloyd Margaret Mead (eds), Reshaping Australia's Economy: Growth With Equity and Sustainability Paul Dalziel and Ralph Lattimore, The New Zealand Macroeconomy: A Briefing on the Reforms and Their Legacy Ian Gray, Geoffrey Lawrence, A Future for Regional Australia – Escaping Global Misfortune Gary Bryan Magee, Knowledge Generation: Technical Change and Economic Growth in Colonial Australia D. Anthony Low , Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an Historian Iain McCalman , Alexander Cook, Andrew Reeves (eds), Gold: Forgotten Objects and Lost Histories of Australia Kosmas Tsokhas, Making a Nation State: Cultural Identity, Economic Nationalism and Sexuality in Australian History Andrew Markus (ed), Building a New Community: Immigration and the Victorian Economy Geoffrey M. Hodgson, How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science Alice H. Amsden, The Rise of 'The Rest': Challenges to the West From Late-Industrializing Economies Catherine R. Schenk, Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre: Emergence and Development 1945-1965 Derek Aldcroft and Michael Oliver, Exchange-Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century Gordon Fletcher, Understanding Dennis Robertson: The Man and His Work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'A Century of Economics: 100 Years of the Royal Economic Society and the Economic Journal,' edited by John D. Hey and Donald Winch.

The article reviews various books, including "20th Century Los Angeles: Power, Promotion and Social Conflict," edited by Norman M. Klein and Martin J. Schiesl, "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles," by Mike Davis and "Sex, Death and God in L.A.," edited by David Reid.

Reviews the book `Post Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory: A Foundation for Successful Economic Policies for the Twenty-First Century,' by Paul Davidson.

A review of the book "The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics," edited by Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho, is presented.

A review of the book "Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720," by Carl Wennerlind, is presented.

Contractors and war: the transformation of United States' expeditionary operations, edited by Christopher Kinsey and Malcolm Hugh Patterson, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2012, 352 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8047-6990-7 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Economic Origins of Roman Christianity," by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert D. Tollison.

The article reviews the book "Happiness, Growth and the Life Cycle," by Richard A. Easterlin.

A review of the book "Crises & Cycles in Economics Dictionaries & Encyclopedias," edited by Daniele Besomi is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom," by Jonathan Haidt.

Reviews the book 'The Circulation of Capital: Essays on Volume Two of Marx's Capital,' edited by Christopher J. Arthur and Geert Reuten.

Reviews the book `Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain,' by G.R. Searle.

Reviews the book `Kondratiev and the Dynamics of Economic Development: Long Cycles and Industrial Growth in Historical Context,' by Vincent Barnett.

Hunger in the balance: the new politics of international food aid, by Jennifer Clapp, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2012, xiv + 201 pp., $29.95 (hardback), ISBN 0-8014-5039-X [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery," by Stewart Lansley.

A review of the book "Keynes's General Theory Seventy-Five Years Later," edited by Thomas Cate is presented.

The article reviews the book "American Science Fiction Film and Television," by Lincoln Geraghty.

The article reviews the book "Media, Policy and Interaction," edited by Richard Fitzgerald and William Housley.

The article reviews the book "Positive Psychology in Practice," edited by P. Alex Linley and Stephen Joseph.

Reviews the book "The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century," by Marc Fumaroli.

Reviews the book `The Myth of Dialectics,' by John Rosenthal.