In this entertaining and witty introduction to economics, Georg von Wallwitz invites us to consider the origin of concepts such as "market," "growth," "wealth," or "redistribution," while showing us to what extent the desire to prospering has contributed to the development of our societies. Through great classics such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Marx, Stuart Mill or Adam Smith, he masterfully reconstructs the relationship between wealth and well-being throughout various historical moments, to show us that, like philosophy and literature, economic thought he is the child of his time and, therefore, should not be thought in isolation.