FROM POLITICAL ECONOMY TO ECONOMICS
The article is devoted to the formation of teaching economics in the Russian higher school. The author analyzes the challenges faced by the economic scientific and pedagogical community in the early 90s in the context of market reforms in the economy. Reveals problems of reforming economic education in Russia and the difficulties of the transition from teaching Marxist political economy to the functional analysis. As an example, the article presents the successful experience of the Department of economics of MGIMO on the implementation of teaching micro- and macroeconomics in the educational process on the basis of the textbook «Сourse of economics» prepared by the team of authors.