Economic collapse

There is noprecise definition of an economic collapse. The term has been used to describea broad range of bad economic conditions from a severe, prolonged depressionwith high bankruptcy rates and high unemployment, such as the, to a breakdown in normal commerce caused by (such as in Weimar Germany), oreven an economically caused sharp increase in the death rate and perhaps even adecline in population (Former USSR). Often economic collapse is accompanied bysocial chaos, civil unrest and sometimes a breakdown of law and order.