Methodological foundations of economic and demographic research

The subject of the article is the methodological basis of modern economic and demographic research. The place of these disciplines in the classification of Sciences, especially the definition of "truth", "law", their empirical confirmation and acceptance or rejection by the scientific community are considered. The main question of this work is how the generally accepted ideas, theories, concepts, paradigms are formed, on the basis of which economic and demographic problems are developed in the future. The main method of work - literature review and understanding of own experience of an autor in the sphere of social and economic researches. The scope of the conclusions and recommendations of this work is the state policy in the field of economic and demo-graphic development.