This edition is a popular, author-driven explanation of the economic patterns that make our world what it is today. Through the lens of economics and economic processes, foundational events in human history are reframed: the смена of formations, the discovery and conquest of new continents and lands, the emergence of religious doctrines, wars and their causes and consequences. Special attention is given to the Global Projects that dictate terms to the world; crises—their origins, development, and results. The author, a well-known Russian economist and political scientist Mikhail Khazin writes that the book reflects “how I would like teaching economics to look, under what line this science needs to be built.”