About the book: year / We are publishing a full transcript of the lecture by the president of the Institute of the national project "Social Contract", a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for promoting the development of civil society institutions and human rights , manager Department of Applied Institutional Economics, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, Professor Alexander Auzan, read on February 26, 2006 in the club - literary cafe Bilingua as part of the project “Public Lectures Political. ru." With this lecture, Alexander Auzan opens a new trilogy about the foundations of a new political-economic cycle in Russia and is a unique case in our country of truly original reasoning in terms of modern Western institutional theory, and even regarding problems that were traditionally considered to be outside the boundaries of economic rationality. The situation of the conversation at these lectures is also remarkable because Alexander Auzan, on the one hand, is a highly qualified scientist-economist, on the other, a practitioner, public figure, founder of a number of successful public organizations.