[F]ree markets, being a human invention, often become dysfunctional; they do not deserve our blind faith. - John Komlos

In the United States, beginning with the birth cohorts of the 1830s, adult male stature declined, by more than two centimeters. Men appear to have been quite underweight... an average... of 126 pounds... in their late teen-age years, even though... the economy was expanding rapidly... (between 1840 and 1870, per capita net national product increased by more than 40%). In the Hapsburg Monarchy, the decline in stature during the second half of the eighteenth century was between three and five centimeters. A similar pattern was found for industrializing Montreal. The birth weight of infants there fell after the 1870s, indicating that the nutritional status of mothers was declining.

[M]ainstream economics is fundamentally flawed [and] ignores the elephant in the room, which is the real existing economy.

Capitalism with a human face would require the elimination of poverty... the reduction of inequality... the establishment of real true... ... a less stressful life. ...Economists disregard stress.