That other field is called political economics, and it was much of what economics was about (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill) until the late 19th century. Remember that Adam Smith was a professor of moral philosophy. It was W. Stanley Jevons in the 1890s who proposed stripping the “political” part out of the name of the field and taking moral questions out of economic thinking. Now, political economics is mostly taught in political science and sociology.
As a matter of fact, there are a couple of “pygmy” forests on the California coast, one in Sonoma County and one in Mendocino, and a “dwarf” forest in the northern Sierras.
That’s why a lot of guys won’t vote for Kamala Harris.