Amazing Adventures in the Land of Economics

We present to your attention a book by the well-known domestic economist, professor at the Higher School of Economics, Igor Vladimirovich Lipitsits, written… for children. More precisely, the book was written for his daughter. It was an attempt to tell the girl what his father does. And the attempt succeeded—so well that over the last 20 years the book has been published and reissued, rewritten to reflect changing life, and has become the first economics textbook for millions of Russian schoolchildren. Encouraged by that first success, the author later wrote an entire series of school textbooks on this subject.

Simply—about unclear and complex, easily and funly—about dull and tangled laws of an ancient and ever-young country of Economics is told in this book.

Even an adult who is far from “big” economics will listen to it with pleasure. And a teenager will find answers to many questions that interest them: how life is arranged, why some people are rich and others constantly struggle with hunger, what price and wages are, trade and exchange rates, competition and inflation.

A book that has no equal in domestic literature can rightfully serve as the first textbook for children on the foundations of a market economy.