<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective</strong>. The purpose of this article is to analyze the spectrum of issues developing by the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Russian Academy of Education A.L. Zhuravlev himself and to consider the questions elaborating under his guidance – with his co-workers and students in different periods of his scientific work; the research was conducted from the perspective of analyzing the processes of formation and development of the domestic economic psychology problem field. <br><strong>Background</strong>. The existing rules of development of socio-economic systems, in particular their cyclical nature (alternation of stable and crisis periods, uneven changes in the system), indicate the actuality of historical and psychological research in the field of economic psychology in order to predict economic, psychological and socio-psychological dynamics in changing geopolitical and socio-economic conditions of society. <br><strong>Results. </strong>Changes in the management of country’s economic life in the 80s of the last century, the subsequent economic transformations in society, crises and global processes in the world economy are considered as social factors that actualize the research of socio-psychological and economic-psychological phenomena in the scientific work of A.L. Zhuravlev. Among them are: psychological readiness of the population for cardinal economic changes, the relationship of socio-psychological and economic dynamics, patterns and mechanisms of economic socialization and economic self-determination, psychological resources of economic development of society and other phenomena. <br><strong>Conclusions. </strong>Three main stages in the development of the issues of domestic economic psychology presented in the scientific work of A.L. Zhuravlev was reveled. The connection of the studied economic-psychological and socio-psychological phenomena with the socio-economic dynamics of public life is shown.</p>
