This book is a fascinating story about how economic thought began, how it has changed over the centuries, and what it is today. Readers will be presented with the ideas of famous philosophers and economists: Lao Tzu, Aristotle and Plato, Thomas Aquinas, A. Smith, K. Marx, J. M. Keynes and F. von Hayek, L. von Mises, M. Rothbard and others, which have not lost their relevance even now. Many current economic problems simply cannot be understood without reference to the history of ideas. Never before has delving into the world of economic ideas been so exciting. One of the goals of the book is to show an alternative to the existing mainstream, to talk about what the free market tradition is and how for centuries it has struggled with the tradition of nationalization of the economy.