Foster, Gigi2020-05-192020-05-1913221833http://hdl.handle.net/1885/204456This paper presents a slightly modified version of a speech given to the Economic Society of Australia’s ACT branch in Canberra in November 2017, as a keynote address at the organisation’s annual general meeting. It considers the relationship between economics as a science, and ethical principles both as they guide the actions of practising economists and as they arise in the surrounding social and political context in which economists ply their trade.en-AUAuthor/s retain copyrighthttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/2018-0510.22459/AG.25.01.2018.04Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)