exactly so the idea that economics or history is like physics is not sustainable
As we understand these things now, yeah. Perhaps one sphere emerges from the previous, but once that happens enough, surely some kind of patterns can be spotted. That is, how the psychic/psychological emerges from the neurological, or how the cultural emerges from the psychological (if we can make such an argument). Even if these things (economics, history) are emergent spheres, they still emerge from something, even if they aren't absolutely reducible to that something.
Perhaps, an understanding of emergence, and other such dense and abstract things, might let us link our understandings of things as seemingly disparate as economics and physics.
And the ideology that I'm coming from, now, is cosmological, and that increased order and organization seem to take cosmic priority over morality. That doesn't mean that increasing organization doesn't or shouldn't have to reckon with morality, but it does mean that, ultimately, morality (or anything human for that matter) isn't the driving force.
I have a tough time, sometimes, getting out of this ideology, and am frequently guilty, as you point out, of masquerading as if I was under no ideology at all.