For the first time, the Russian reader is offered a book where the history of economic thought can be traced as a single process from antiquity to the end of the 60s. of our century, from the first attempts to comprehend economic phenomena to categories and models of economics of the late XX century, due to which the book acquires the character of an introduction to modern economic science. The simplicity of presentation and the fluidity of the transition to things more and more difficult make the book accessible even to an unprepared reader, and the lively and sometimes humorous language is fascinating reading. For high school students, teachers, students, teachers, everyone who is interested in the history and content of economic science.