Logos and its Latin counterpart legere - to count, speak, gather etc. Ecology at root means the legend or logic of the dwelling place, the story of where we live. Because it embodies a changing, evolving knowing and saying I think ecology is most accurately revealed as the legend of the house. Economy is eco plus nomos . Nomos is from another Greek word nemein , to distribute.
Economy is from Greek oikonomia , household management.
Our sense of economy as thrift echoes this root sense. By extension economy has come to include all enterprise. In Greek economos meant steward, the household manager, the agent of economia, good management, thrift. Ecology is the natural traditional and proper context of economy. In a deep and fateful sense economy is an aspect of ecology, an actor, a part in its drama.