Or as Reagan put it, there should be a Trivial Pursuit game for economists with 100 questions and 3000 answers. It is said that if all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion. Or better yet, if all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad idea. Before I discuss this I'd like to point out that this is not the whole story either. On many issues economists are quite unanimous in their opinion.
Societies benefit most from free trade.
Rent control tends to destroy cities. The minimum wage creates teenage unemployment. The costs of unemployment outweigh the costs of inflation. The environment would be cleaner at less cost to society with a pollution tax. For example, consider the Gramm-Rudman Act passed by Congress and signed by the President Reagan back in 1985.