I think the very unfortunate narrowness of economics has partly to do with its history. Economics got going before any of the other social sciences and also eco

I think the very unfortunate narrowness of economics has partly to do with its history. Economics got going before any of the other social sciences and also ecological science, and early on had an enormous practical success with the development of free market theory, and so got the mistaken idea that it could proceed just fine without these other sciences. Another problem is that economics is very closely connected to political policies, so it is very vulnerable to ideological influences.