Yes, more anthropologists and fewer economists please! Let's have more ecologists too, because we need to know the ecological consequences of political decisions, not least on climate but also their effect on biodiversity. For instance, will continued high population growth destroy all remnant vegetation in SE Queensland and NE NSW, prime habitat of the koala (well, before the fires they were). It may be "economic" to mine more coal and sell it to India and Vietnam, but it is disastrous in environmental and health terms. We might bring in a few theologians too to discuss the moral case for the above. Economists have held sway for too long. NOw their views need to be balanced by others.

Diversifying the fields that are put into consideration helps keep a better picture of the world (and a more reliable picture). The down side is that the different fields don't always talk the same language. The focus is not the same, so what's actually considered the issue is never agreed on.

On the other hand, if a hammer is the only tool you have, every problem looks like a nail. Economics can't solve all the issues. But neither can anthropologists, or ecologists.

Expecially when one of the big problems is that there are roughly three different classes of people. Those with lots of money, who don't know what it takes to live on a regular income. Those with a medium income who live paycheck to paycheck, or have just a little bit extra. (Who don't understand the spending habits of the ultra rich, but also don't know difficulties of the poor). Then you have the different levels of bottoming out. Where getting by means choices of skipping a meal, paying a debt, or having something inexpensive but unaffordable to you.

This economic problem of classes, is a blind spot in the academic world. The experts of economics don't understand it. The concerns of the ecologist don't care about it, and every Ivory tower university except anthropologist courses don't even know it exists.

That's one of the reasons I suggested churches. Because they get more diversity among the economic classes to go to church, and therefore expose the different classes to those that attend that church. The other reason is of course exposing people to a moral fiber to live up to regardless of their career field.

... I should add that ecologist, economists, and anthropologics are three fields that often are blind to the problems that are obvious in the other fields. Anthropologics look at the people, and not the enviornment or the economy. Economists look at money trends, businesses and companies, and bank security issues. Unaware of the people or the enviornment. And ecologist see nothing of either the people or the cost of anything they say.