Written in a brilliant style, G. Hazlitt's book is unique in how interesting and accessible it is in presenting the most complex problems of government intervention and economic regulation. As practice shows, the problems described by the author using the example of an analysis of the interaction between the state and the US economy are widely encountered in other countries. Russia is no exception: none of the problems described are absent in our country. Moreover, as practice shows, due to domestic specifics, the severity of the problems under consideration in relation to our state is many times higher.