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The textbook is prepared according to the updated economic theory course programme, which takes into account both general trends in the world's economic development and the peculiarities of the transformation of the command economy into a market economy in Ukraine. The publication contains 26 topics that allow to characterise the integral system of knowledge on the basics of the modern market economy and the mechanism of its formation in post-socialist countries.

Substantial attention is paid to the peculiarities of teaching modern economic theory to law students based on the author's many years of teaching this course at the Law Faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine and the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

For students of non-economic specialities of higher education institutions, teachers, postgraduate students, researchers.