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[*] " So what conclusion follows for the economist? Humility. In teaching, humility is called pluralism, confrontation with facts and other social sciences, and recognizing the three demands that one finds in the very interesting petition written by the economics students. In political terms, this means that no argument from authority is legitimate. This does not imply that the economist ought to remain outside the public debate. It simply means that the economist must engage him or herself as a citizen with convictions regarding the public good and ways of treating it, rather than as the holder of universal truth that he or she substitutes for discussion in order to impose it on us all. "