V monografii rassmatrivaetsya istoriya rossiyskoy ekonomicheskoy nauki s momenta ee vozniknoveniya v nachale KhIKh veka i do poslednikh rabot v period Russkogo Zarubezh'ya. Avtor razdelyaet ponyatiya rossiyskoy i sovetskoy ekonomicheskoy nauki, ne smeshivaya ikh. V rabote issleduyutsya raboty vydayushchikhsya russkikh uchenykh ekonomistov A.I.Chuprova, P.I.Georgievskogo, S.N.Bulgakova, M.I.Tugan-Baranovskogo, V.G.Yarotskogo i dr.