TY - JOUR AB - Looks at the differences in new and old methodology with regard to economics and discusses the theories laid down by Quesnay and Smith in the eighteenth century, and also the modern revolution started by Malthus (1820). Further discusses the variations in thought by all the great thinkers in this discipline and shows improvements or errors made by them. Concludes that there will be further breakthroughs and that there are no boundaries involved in this sphere. VL - 27 IS - 5/6 SN - 0306-8293 DO - 10.1108/03068290010694930 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290010694930 AU - Rugina Anghel N. PY - 2000 Y1 - 2000/01/01 TI - New times, new problems and new ideas: the fundamentals of a new research programme T2 - International Journal of Social Economics PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 565 EP - 599 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -