This material is a review of the book by Bohdan Shevchyk �Tradition and economy: economic systems in socio-cultural dynamics� (2017), which presents author�s concept of undestending socio-cultural changes as the basis of economic development. The monograph substantiates the concept of economic orientalism, which is considered in such dimensions: firstly, as a new paradigmatic project of socio-economic development; secondly, as forms of sociocultural space. The ideational type of cultural

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... ty of Ukrainians acts as the leading one and determines the structure and institutional complementarity of the national economic system of Ukraine. The main results of the author�s research, which characterize the scientific novelty, include the following: theoretical substantiation of the concept of economic orientalism as a characteristic of a number of modern circumstances, which is associated with: the change of types of dominant culture in the processes of sociocultural dynamics and the transition from sensory to ideational type of cultural mentality; proving the socio-cultural context of the formation of economic orientalism. Business entities are considered as a multi-intellectual socio-cultural economic system of the ideational type of culture; interpretation of systems of economic thinking as structures of mentality, which is the basis of theoretical modeling of evolutionary and transitive economic systems in the quadratic: structure-function-processenvironment