Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Economic Recession

Significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real gross domestic product, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. (National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, www.nber.org/cycles.html, accessed 4/23/2009)

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Abstract

Significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real gross domestic product, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. (National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, www.nber.org/cycles.html, accessed 4/23/2009)

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Synonyms

7 entry terms
  • Recession, Economic
  • Economic Recessions
  • Recessions, Economic
  • Economic Depression
  • Depression, Economic
  • Depressions, Economic
  • Economic Depressions

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Aspects Covered

4 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings history, legislation & jurisprudence, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2010; use ECONOMICS 1990-2009

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Previous Indexing

  • Economics (1990-2009)

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  1. I01w.261w.425w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Economic Recession. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D057172. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D057172
  2. Economic Recession. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession
  3. Economic Recession. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176494