ecoethics

My brain stumbled into the obvious yesterday - between a paper on engineering ethics and a class on microeconomics -

Isn't it time for economics to acknowledge and embrace their impact and their social and ethical responsibilities?

Seems to me they've been hiding behind the screen of 'we're purely rational, theoretical, that's what our models say'. Which is a screen scientists found convenient for a while until it came to light that really they weren't doing science in a vacuum and they should become a little more enlightened (cf. Pugwash for instance).

I believe the time is right for economists as well.