ABSTRACT
A few centuries ago the discipline of economics was not yet a well identified and separate branch of knowledge. Its foundation and its subsequent devel opment required hardships and toil by a group of pioneers coming from disparate fields of knowledge such as moral philosophy, physics, and engi neering. Their efforts have produced a rigorous theoretical construction that many consider as a true sanctuary, providing its priests-the econo mists-with a set of powerful tools to analyze reality. As an economist my self, I share a sense of respect for the intellectual construction, and its foundations, that our predecessors endowed to us.
