Systematically presents the material devoted to the new scientific and educational direction - the world economy and international business, the science of modern trends in the development of the world economy and the most important directions and factors for the development of international business. On specific examples, the main trends in the development of the world economy, methods of regulation, research, forecasting and modeling of the world market and international business are briefly considered . The features of modern international financial business, international exchange of intellectual property, international trade in goods and services for various purposes are analyzed. This express course is a summary of the textbook of the same name, prepared by the same team of authors and published by the publishing house "Kno. Rus" . For students, postgraduates, teachers of higher educational institutions, students of the postgraduate education system, as well as for specialists dealing with issues of world economy and international business .