Searching new method for studying an economic thought
The article is a review of the scientific monograph of V. A. Shchegolevsky «Hierarchical structure and the market in economic thought of the West of the new and the Latest time (historical and economic analysis)». The author lights the main advantages and shortcomings of the monograph under discussion of the method of analysis of the development of economic thought. The review focuses on understanding of the transition from early methods of political economy to the doctrine of Adam Smith. The author compares the methodology applied in the work of V. A. Schegolevsky with the traditionally accepted methods of neoinstitutionalists in the Russian economic science.