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Nicky Pouw's I Wellbeing Economics: How and Why Economics Needs to Change i is a welcome challenge to mainstream economics. Wellbeing (or at least, the material basis for achieving wellbeing) is closely intertwined with economics. Chapters 3 and 4 contain the outline of two research programmes, one on evaluating wellbeing (chapter 3), and another one on reshaping economics (chapter 4). [Extracted from the article]

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap: By Yuen Yuen Ang Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press, 2016, pp. 344. Yuen Yuen Ang situates the discussion on poverty reduction strictly in the context of the two-way relationship between growth and governance by challenging the linear interpretation of the underlying causal relationship. The state apparatus China inherited from Deng's rule "hardly fit the description of a strong state" (p. 5). [Extracted from the article]

Indeed, Keupp does not limit the economics literature he mobilises to defence economics. Keupp points out an issue that is scarcely dealt with and even less assessed in economics: Do we need to preserve the status quo on the ways and means through which national defence and armed forces are structured? Even though one could criticize how Keupp applies the Austrian and public choice theories to defence matters and more particularly to military forces, this book identifies important topics and issues. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews several books related to the economy. Includes 'The Keynesian Revolution and Its Economic Consequences,' by Peter Clarke; 'The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor,' by David S. Landes; 'Transnational Classes and International Relations,' by Kees van der Pijl.

Reviews several books on economic history. Includes 'The Keynesian Revolution and Its Economic Consequences: Selected Essays,' by Peter F. Clarke; 'Religion and Economics: Normative Social Theory,' edited by James M. Dean and A.M.C. Waterman; 'Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers,' by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hebert.

The article reviews the book "From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory," by Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine.

The article reviews the book "Il pensiero economico nei ducati emiliani e negli stati pontific, dalle origini al 1848," by Andrea Balletti, edited by Manuela Mosca.

Reviews the book 'A Guide for the Young Economist: Writing and Speaking Effectively About Economics,' by William Thomson.

Reviews the book "Activities 1922-1929. The Return to Gold and Industrial Policy," vol. XIX.

Provides an overview of "Economic Atlas of Szechuan (Ssu-ch'uan)". Atlas and text based on reports of government agencies, books and publications, and field studied made by members of the China Institute of Geography.