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In short novels-fairy tales and essays the key issues of “development” are shown. In particular, in one of the stories necessary and sufficient prerequisites for development: irreversibility, direction, regularity, order, self-organization are analyzed. In another short story, in a novel-fairy tale the contradictions as the driving forces of development process and the factors forming them (impacting impulses and limitations) are discussed. In the third novel-fairy tale contents of the main phases of self-organization process of economic systems are analyzed. In a cycle of stories a series of aphorisms of well-known thinkers and a fragment of the popular book by Eihelberg that very clearly illustrates the achievements of mankind in its civilizational marathon are presented.