Moments of Everyday Happiness

The edition is a popular author’s presentation of economic patterns that make our world what it is today. Through the lens of economics and economic processes, the book filters out the fundamental events in human history: the смена formations, the discovery and conquest of new continents and lands, the emergence of religious doctrines, wars, their prerequisites and consequences. Special attention is given to Global Projects that dictate their own terms to the world; crises—how they arise, develop, and their outcomes. The author, a well-known Russian economist and political scientist, Mikhail Khazin, writes that in the book he reflects “something like how I would like economics to be taught, under what line this science should be built.”