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. But this is not how modern economy understands itself. Stock market speculation does not know, care about or require a real locale.
Modern economy is a traveling salesman with no home.
Its logic is profit based not place based, hence the wholesale migration of business to cheap labor locales and the standard argument that environmental regulations are limiting business growth. In the cyclic drama of ecologia, the seasonal blossoming and dying of creation, one actor has claimed center stage and has held forth in one long and increasingly boring self righteous soliloquy. The original sense of economy as thrift makes sense if we are living in the story of the house, living within our means . But in the modern economy the economos is no longer a steward but a homeless, manic huckster frantically paddling his canoe on the crest of a fitful cash flow, desperate to stay ahead of his own entropic wake. Surge is from sub-regere, to rule from below.