A short course in economic science. Bogdanov A.A.

The attention of readers is proposed to the book of an outstanding Russian economist, philosopher and politician A.A. Bogdanov (1873-1928), in which he considers the consistent phases of the economic development of society and characterizes each era according to the following plan: the state of technology, or human relations to nature; forms of social relations in production and distribution; The psychology of society, the development of its ideology; The forces of the development of each era, which determine the change of economic systems and consistent transitions from primitive communism and the patriarchal-rod organization of the society to the slave system, feudalism, small-bourgeois system, the era of trade, industrial capitalism and, finally, socialism.

The Marxist foundations of the teaching, along with the concise and common accessibility of the presentation, brought the book wide popularity in Russia, and until recently it was the most common manual in the study of economic science not only among workers, but also in the broad circles of students. The book today will be interesting to economists and economics historians.