A bit of a loaded question... just working to nudge fellow economists to consider joining the effort to build a Humanomics, "an economics with the humans and their ethics left in" (quoting Deirdre McCloskey)." Metaeconomics is a Humanomics with a theory, lacking in the McCloskey version of it, as represented in Dual Interest Theory. And, yes, it is an economics about a Human, with the ethic playing a key role. In contrast, Single Interest Theory in mainstream Microeconomics, which is about an Econ oblivious to the ethic of the economic choice. If curious, see the website metaeconomics.info ...
Mr. Lynne, this is definitely something to consider. Setting aside the question about Dual Interest Theory, we economists have lone forgone the moral/ethics aspects of our discipline. Originally founded as a philosophical exercise on wealth, we have stripped away all that made economics what it once was. Obviously, the field has come a long way since then, proving it has some success within; nevertheless, we ought to include morals and ethics back into all of our equations. Sooner than later.
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