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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of Economis”, which gave a start to the rhetorical approach to the analysis of economic theories, as well as previously unpublished — but long-awaited by specialists — manuscript of the leading Soviet Marxist of the 1920s Isaak I. Rubin about the monetary theory of Karl Marx.