East and resources: from Antiquity to the Present [Review on:] Alexander M. Etkind. The Nature of evil. Raw materials and the state. Moscow: New Literary Review; 2020. 504 p.

The focal point of the book under review is Europe as well as its interaction on the level of supply of resources with other regions of the world, primarily with the East. The author expands the usual notion of the “East”. He extends its boundaries to the regions, which supplied Europe with resources, starting with the actual East and extending it to the European North and even America. The author identifies a change in the main types of resources supply, from the wood and other commodities followed by luxury goods and energy carriers. The author shows a special interest in the influence of resource exchange on social processes in Europe and the East, as well as the formation of European academic economic thought. He also pays special attention to environmental problems related to the resource economy.

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