The “Origins” is an anthology that covers the analysis of the economy in a broad culturalhistorical and intellectual context. The central theme of the seventh issue is the theme of environment: cultural, social, intellectual, in which economic agents are acting and economic ideas are born and formulated. In the edition the reader will find original studies of economic behavior in various religious and ethical environments by T.B. Koval and A.A. Susokolov, as well as the publication about the economic characters in fiction by literary expert T.D. Venediktova. Prepared exclusively for the anthology, the work by V. Brown serves as an example of historical and scientific study of economic thought based on the ideas of M.M. Bakhtin. For the first time many well-known articles are published in Russian, including the work of Nobel Award winner James Buchanan, “Ethical Rules, Expected Values, and Large Numbers”, an authoritative review on the same topic by Daniel M. Houseman and Michael S. McPherson, the famous article of Deidre N. McCloskey, “Rhetoric of Economis”, which gave a start to the rhetorical approach to the analysis of economic theories, as well as previously unpublished — but long-awaited by specialists — manuscript of the leading Soviet Marxist of the 1920s Isaak I. Rubin about the monetary theory of Karl Marx.

The book is the first attempt to reconstruct Plato’s philosophy of time in its connection with early Greek thought. Analyzing texts by ancient Greek poets, historians, rhetoricians, tragedians, and early Greek philosophers, the author traces the evolution of images and notions of time that were peculiar to the ancient Greek culture. A careful study of their genesis provides the basis for a reconstruction of Plato’s philosophy of time. The author argues that the conventional ‘time–eternity’ interpretive scheme adopted in the European philosophical tradition is inadequate for Plato’s theory and transforms it into a tripartite ‘eternity–time–instantaneousness’ scheme. Eternity characterizes the existence of the forms, while time pertains to the world of becoming. Instantaneousness is the third temporal status, proper to the receptacle, the lowest principle of Plato’s metaphysics. What distinguishes this book from other works on the subject is its emphasis on historical and conceptual analysis and a broad perspective combined with embedding Plato’s  philosophy of time in the cultural context of the epoch.
The book is intended for researchers in the fields of Plato studies and metaphysics of time, philosophers and historians of philosophy, and anyone interested in ancient Greek philosophy and temporality issues.