...since that's what my degree is in. (Wonder if it's appropriate that it was a degree with the title of B.S.?). IIRC, there's a couple of economics majors in the IWETHEY populace.
Anyhow, that's not to say that economics is not a useful tool. It's just that it's more of a reactive practice, with some guiding principles. It does have same explanatory power to help make sense of behavior in the world of commerce, just like many of the social sciences.