The unparalleled five-volume work of a large team of authors proposes a fundamental public-management platform for modernizing the state of the economy and economic policy of Russia. For the first time, targeted scientific and expert research combined the methods and knowledge of fundamental sciences (philosophy, history, law, physics and mathematics), applied (economics, political science, sociology, psychology, demography, ecology, management), industry sciences (by type of economic activity and other segments of the economy) and specially developed methods for designing public management practices. A significant conclusion about the unacceptability of the Russian economic policy formed in the 1990s and the beginning of the XXI century. (as of 2007) was made in the work on the basis of clear and systemic value criteria. Specific measures have been proposed to correct economic policy in each of its segments.