Immiseration is not a side-effect of economics. It's the main thrust.
Nothing gets my goat more than economists messing up people's lives. My latest rant (with solid statistics to back it up, of course) is the way economists have pushed the majority of the US population to misery, their health and their living situation. 77 percent of young men are so bad they can't be conscripted. See if you agree with me!