The book by the famous Russian economist Evgeny Yasin, “New Era - Old Anxieties: Political Economy,” includes his works from 1998–2004, devoted to the relationship between social and economic processes in modern Russia. The role of the reforms of the 90s in today's economic recovery, the influence of government policy on the investment climate, the Yukos affair and the conflict between business and the bureaucracy that it identified - an analysis of each of these problems leads Yevgeny Yasin to a single conclusion: only the path of democratic development promises economic prosperity for Russia.