Economists debate the path they believe their profession should take.
Economists are still debating what it was that ended the financial crisis and turned the economy around.
Economists may debate whether the business cycle has finally been tamed.
Economists then debate about when a price can be said to be "objective".
Prior to Marx, many economists debated as to what elements made up exchange value.
It turns out that economists have been debating this subject in scholarly journals for more than a quarter century.
A year or so ago, economists debated whether the economy could operate at unemployment rates below 6 percent without driving up wages, then prices.
The economists are debating whether to break some state-owned industries into parts that will compete with each other.
Economists are debating whether the gains in efficiency, and therefore productivity, from the technology boom of the 1990's were large or small.
But economists still debate the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus.