Illustrated history of economic idea from Middle ages to contemporaneity.Every day people clash with by a great number questions on an economy. "Why does my salary depend on fund markets behind an ocean"?, "How did it go out that a home commodity is more expensive than imported"?, Will there "be we living is better in 5"?. To understand, Michael Goodwin traced history of economy, her crises, successes, anomalies of contemporaneity and possibility of the future. You know now, as a modern economy changes under act of climatic changes, wars, limit nature of resources and as these changes affect each of us.A book will be interesting to all, who wants in an accessible and enthralling form to become familiar with history of economy and her basic concepts. It is recommended students and university entrants beginning to study an economy.