The federal government offers financial assistance and health insurance to. people with epilepsy who qualify. The two primary financial assistance programs are. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). These programs are administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Positive economics is objective and fact based, while normative economics is subjective and value based. Positive economic statements do not have to be correct, but they must be able to be tested and proved or disproved. Normative economic statements are opinion based, so they cannot be proved or disproved.
History of macroeconomic thought. Macroeconomic theory has its origins in the study of business cycles and monetary theory. In general, early theorists believed monetary factors could not affect real factors such as real output. John Maynard Keynes attacked some of these classical theories and produced a general theory that described the whole economy in terms of aggregates rather than individual, microeconomic parts.