Recession

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Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

EconLit: Listed alphabetically under List of All Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to the international literature on economics since 1969. Econ Lit corresponds to the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, covering journal articles, books, and dissertations, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings and collected essay volumes.

As an example, a search in this database for Recession produced over two thousand references, including over fourteen hundred articles, and over one hundred and sixty books.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases. The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

See Recession in the Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, and Economic Cycles in the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance.

JSTOR: This database may be found under Electronic Journals, which may be found by going to Reference Tools in the left menu, under Find It. JSTOR is a subject searchable index of 360 journals, with full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. Among the collections of scholarly journals on this site are ones for Business and for Economics, encompassing 72 journals.

As an example, an advanced search, in business and economics journals, in articles, by title, for Recession produced over ninety articles.

Oxford Reference Online — Economics & Business: On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Research Tools as well as in the List of All Business Databases. This database provides online searching and content for Oxford University Press's Dictionaries of Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance and Banking, Human Resource Management, and the Handbook of International Financial Terms.

A search for Recession produced six definitions.

Social Sciences Citation Index: Included under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database "is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It "provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward."

As an example, an advanced search, in business and economics articles, for Recession produced over six hundred references.

Statistical Universe: Statistical Universe is an index to statistical data in commercial, international and U.S. government publications. Go to Power Tables for quick access to tables of data in GIF format, many of which can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets.

A search for Recession produced sixteen tables.

Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the

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Brookings Institution: "The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions. For more than 90 years, Brookings has analyzed current and emerging issues." See their research on the topic of Recession.
Bureau of Economic Analysis: This organization is "an agency of the Department of Commerce. Along with the Census Bureau and STAT-USA, BEA is part of the Department's Economics and Statistics Administration." A site search for Recession produced over 180 links, including a Definition
Fed in Print: This site allows you to search the index to Federal Reserve economic research. A search for the term Recession retrieved over two hundred articles, including, as an example, Recession Rumblings (in PDF format) from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, in May 2007.
Foreign Policy Magazine: "Founded in 1970 … and now published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C." See The Recession Felt Around the World.
The International Monetary Fund: "The IMF is an international organization of 185 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment." See their IMF Predicts Slower World Growth Amid Serious Market Crisis, with two references to recession. See also their many documents on Recession.
National Bureau of Economic Research: "Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. " See their US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions and results of a site search on the topic of Recession, with over a thousand links to documents.
Peterson Institute for International Economics: This organization "is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key international economic problems." See their research on the topic of Recession, with over six hundred documents.
Recession.Org: "Recession.org is a project built and maintained by Harvard Law's Student Economic Action Team, a non-profit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts … with a mission to provide its readers with the latest news related to the United States economy as well as a Library of informative, how-to and self help articles." See their Definition and History sites.
U.S. Federal Reserve System: A site search for Recession produced over 3,500 results.
Wikipedia: This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia, Wikipedia, can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic. See their entry for Recession.

Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

The Foster Business Library

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Business cycles and depressions: an encyclopedia.
This older one-volume covers and explains a wide range of topics related to business cycles and depressions.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: Hb3711 .B936 1997.
See pages 563 to 573 for Recession of 1969-1970, Recessions After World War II, and Recessions (Supply-Side) in the 1970s.
The encyclopedia of American business history.
This two-volume encyclopedia covers American business history in an A to Z format (rather than chronological), in 400 essay-form entries, each with a bibliography. A chronology of American business history may be found in volume two, starting on page 491.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF3021 .G44 2006.
See pages 357 and 358 in volume two for Recession.
The Federal Reserve System: an encyclopedia
This single volume encyclopedia covers both the U.S. Federal Reserve System and banks and banking in the U.S., with topical indexes and essays on a wide variety of topics, from A to Z., including crises, bank failures, depression, and banking terms and concepts.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG2563 .H235 2005.
See Recession on pages 329 and 330.

Foster Business Library Books:

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the

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To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

A keyword search for Recession produced over two hundred records in the UW Libraries, but just fourteen records in the Foster Business Library, including:

Beyond shocks: what causes business cycles? (1998)
Corporate strategies in recession and recovery (1989)
Crises in the economic and financial structure (1982)

See also these titles not in the Foster Business Library:

The global recession risk: dollar devaluation and the world economy (2007)
The 2001 US recession: what did recession prediction models tell us? (2004) (Also available online)
Contours of descent: U.S. economic fractures and the landscape of global austerity (2003)
What will recession mean to you? (2001)
Lessons from the recession: a management and communication perspective (1997)

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library

Periodicals Collection

EBSCO Business Source Premier

All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.

ProQuest Databases:
This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.

A subject search for SUB(Recessions) produced over 23,000 articles, including articles in scholarly journals, magazine articles, articles in trade publications, newspaper articles, and reports. A more focused subject search, for SUB() produced articles.
Combining subjects is a good way to focus a search, such as:
Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:

"IMF Puts Cost of Crisis Near $1 Trillion; Problems 'Metastasized' To Threaten Economy Worldwide, Report Says" (The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.:Apr 9, 2008. p. D.1)
"Bernanke utters R-word; Recession 'possible,' he says" (Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: Apr 3, 2008. pg. 1)
"Investors Eye International Stocks" (Better Investing. Madison Heights: Apr 2008. Vol. 57, Iss. 8; pg. 49, 2 pgs)
"Recession time" (Business Week. New York: Mar 24, 2008. , Iss. 4076; pg. 40)
"Credit Crunch: Most Economists in Survey Say Recession Is Here" (Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Mar 14, 2008. pg. A.14)
"UCLA experts don't buy recession" (Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 11, 2008. pg. A.1)
"Web advertisers get site-specific; Niche pages with a targeted audience may be attractive in weak economy" (Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: Mar 6, 2008. pg. 1)
"The wait is over: that dreaded 'r' word is already among us" (Marketing Week. London: Mar 6, 2008. pg. 24)
"The Coming Financial Pandemic" (Foreign Policy. Washington: Mar/Apr 2008. , Iss. 165; pg. 44, 5 pgs)
"The Unspeakable R Word" (Newsweek. New York: Mar 10, 2008. Vol. 151, Iss. 10)

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28 March 2008; updated 15 April 2008. Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu