Where economists disagree

Being honest about the limits.

Broad agreement

Most economists agree on rent control's long-run effects, the gains from trade, carbon pricing and the reality of opportunity cost. Those are near consensus.

Disagreement is sharper on stimulus, minimum wage effects and inequality remedies.
Values are often doing more work in the argument than economics is.

Reading claims

Ask whether a claim is positive, describing what happens, or normative, describing what should. The second requires values that no dataset supplies.