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1. Other articles where Stagnation thesis is discussed: Alvin Harvey Hansen: Keynes’s theory by developing the stagnation thesis, which states that, as an economy matures, opportunities for productive investment will diminish, which causes the economy’s rate of growth to decrease.
2. Stagnation definition, the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation. See more.
3. Stagnation is a period during which the economy grows slowly, doesn't grow at all, or actually contracts after adjusting for inflation. Typically, there is a corresponding contraction in the stock market. As a result of a slowing economy, unemployment increases and consumer spending slows.
4. Apr 21,  · Stagflation is a combination of stagnant economic growth, high unemployment, and high inflation. It's an unnatural situation because inflation is not supposed to occur in a weak economy.
5. "Stagnation" To Thomas S. Eiselberg, a very rich man, who was wise enough to spend all his fortunes in burying himself many miles beneath the ground. As the only surviving member of the human race, he inherited the whole world. Here today the red sky tells his tale.
6. a puddle of stagnating water Recent Examples on the Web Once patients became critically ill, their condition would stagnate until a sudden change, for better or worse.
7. in the doldrums Inactive, stagnant, nonproductive; depressed, in low spirits, in the dumps, in a blue funk. Doldrum derives from dol, an obsolete form of dull, and is itself an obsolete slang term for a dullard. Thus, the doldrums refers to a condition of dullness, low spirits, or depression.
8. stag·nate (stăg′nāt′) intr.v. stag·nat·ed, stag·nat·ing, stag·nates To be or become stagnant. [Latin stāgnāre, stāgnāt-, from stāgnum, swamp.] stag·na′tion n. stagnate (stæɡˈneɪt; ˈstæɡˌneɪt) vb (intr) to be or to become stagnant stagˈnation n stag•nate (ˈstæg neɪt) v.i. -nat•ed, -nat•ing. 1. to cease to run or.